A Place for God
The Mowbray Lent Book 2018
Published on 16. November 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4729-4526-6 (ISBN)
Description
In The Lent Factor, Graham James wrote about 40 people (one for each day of Lent) who had inspired him and helped to shape his spiritual journey. In this new book he turns his attention to places, from the Flinders Ranges in Australia to Devil's Island (French Guiana) via the Holy Land, Center Parcs and Holborn Underground Station.
As with the previous book, each chapter of A Place for God offers a daily reflection, beginning with a suggested Bible reading and ending with a short prayer, and employing the same engaging combination of autobiography, history and spirituality.
Some of the locations are well known and others very obscure: what they have in common is the part they have played in the author's life, in enabling his 'discovery of the divine in the landscape and the built environment, and of a God who always locates himself in our world, supremely revealed in Jesus of Nazareth'.
As with the previous book, each chapter of A Place for God offers a daily reflection, beginning with a suggested Bible reading and ending with a short prayer, and employing the same engaging combination of autobiography, history and spirituality.
Some of the locations are well known and others very obscure: what they have in common is the part they have played in the author's life, in enabling his 'discovery of the divine in the landscape and the built environment, and of a God who always locates himself in our world, supremely revealed in Jesus of Nazareth'.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Illustrations
No illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Weight
215 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4729-4526-6 (9781472945266)
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Person
Graham James was Bishop of Norwich from 1999 to 2019 and a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Thought for the Day. He is the author of The Lent Factor (Bloomsbury Continuum).
Content
Introduction
1 8115 Vila Kazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa
2 Pool St Martin's, Cornwall
3 The Pantheon, Rome
4 Shepherds' Fields, Beit Sahour
5 Flinders Ranges, South Australia
6 St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk
7 Center Parcs, Longleat
8 Leptis Magna, Libya
9 The Woolsack, House of Lords
10 Christ the Redeemer, Corcovado, Rio De Janeiro
11 Bishop Bridge, Norwich
12 St Enodoc's Church, Cornwall
13 Holborn Underground Station
14 Papua New Guinea 1: Popondetta
15 Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence
16 Norwich Cathedral 1: The Bishop's Chair
17 Norwich Cathedral 2: St Luke's Chapel
18 Norwich Cathedral 3: The Hostry and Refectory
19 Devil's Island, French Guiana
20 Gana in Galilee
21 Victoria Falls
22 Walsingham Abbey
23 Christ the King, Welwyn Garden City
24 St Peter's, Weedon: The Ringing Chamber
25 Butrint, Albania
26 Papua New Guinea 2: Kwima, Jimi Valley
27 Conques, France
28 Lambeth Palace Chapel
29 Lakeland Motor Musuem
30 Gammelstad, Lulea, Sweden
31 Beeston Priory, Norfolk
32 Must Farm, Whittlesey
33 The Holy House, Shrine of our Lady
34 Jorvik Viking Experience, York
35 Hellfire Corner, Redruth Recreation Ground
36 Dominus Flevit, Jerusalem
37 The Sixth Floor, the Texas School Book Depository, Dallas
38 Huer's Hut, Newquay
39 The crypt, Canterbury Cathedral
40 The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall
Easter Collect
Acknowledgements
Permissions
1 8115 Vila Kazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa
2 Pool St Martin's, Cornwall
3 The Pantheon, Rome
4 Shepherds' Fields, Beit Sahour
5 Flinders Ranges, South Australia
6 St Benet's Abbey, Norfolk
7 Center Parcs, Longleat
8 Leptis Magna, Libya
9 The Woolsack, House of Lords
10 Christ the Redeemer, Corcovado, Rio De Janeiro
11 Bishop Bridge, Norwich
12 St Enodoc's Church, Cornwall
13 Holborn Underground Station
14 Papua New Guinea 1: Popondetta
15 Shaw's Corner, Ayot St Lawrence
16 Norwich Cathedral 1: The Bishop's Chair
17 Norwich Cathedral 2: St Luke's Chapel
18 Norwich Cathedral 3: The Hostry and Refectory
19 Devil's Island, French Guiana
20 Gana in Galilee
21 Victoria Falls
22 Walsingham Abbey
23 Christ the King, Welwyn Garden City
24 St Peter's, Weedon: The Ringing Chamber
25 Butrint, Albania
26 Papua New Guinea 2: Kwima, Jimi Valley
27 Conques, France
28 Lambeth Palace Chapel
29 Lakeland Motor Musuem
30 Gammelstad, Lulea, Sweden
31 Beeston Priory, Norfolk
32 Must Farm, Whittlesey
33 The Holy House, Shrine of our Lady
34 Jorvik Viking Experience, York
35 Hellfire Corner, Redruth Recreation Ground
36 Dominus Flevit, Jerusalem
37 The Sixth Floor, the Texas School Book Depository, Dallas
38 Huer's Hut, Newquay
39 The crypt, Canterbury Cathedral
40 The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall
Easter Collect
Acknowledgements
Permissions