Sabbath Keeping
1st Edition
Published on 25. January 1999
94 pages
978-1-4616-6074-3 (ISBN)
Description
The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer. Since it is a difficult art in a society that does not value rest, Schaper encourages small acts of sabbath keeping that initially focus on physical and mental renewal but soon broaden to questions of justice and power.
She begins with a chapter called "What is Sabbath?" and goes to the Bible for definitions, from the ordinances surrounding sabbath in the Hebrew Bible to the gospel stories about the Sabbath. Other meditations concern sabbath and music, sabbath and the body, prayer, focusing and decluttering, sabbath and memory, sabbath as the relinquishing of power, and sabbath as an act of resistance.
She begins with a chapter called "What is Sabbath?" and goes to the Bible for definitions, from the ordinances surrounding sabbath in the Hebrew Bible to the gospel stories about the Sabbath. Other meditations concern sabbath and music, sabbath and the body, prayer, focusing and decluttering, sabbath and memory, sabbath as the relinquishing of power, and sabbath as an act of resistance.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-4616-6074-3 (9781461660743)
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Donna Schaper
Sabbath Keeping
Book
01/1999
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
DONNA SCHAPER is an area minister for the United Church of Christ and a popular retreat leader. A writer for Weavings, The Other Side, and Homiletic, she has also published several books.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- One: What is Sabbath?
- Two: Sabbath in the Wilderness
- Three: The Music of Sabbath
- Four: Decluttering as Sabbath
- Five: Sabbath Prayer
- Six: Remembering into Sabbath
- Seven: Relinquishing as Sabbath
- Eight: Keeping Sabbath as Bodies
- Nine: Sabbath Border-Making
- Ten: Slowing into Sabbath
