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Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, theres a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the deeper meaning of the season.
List of contents
TABLE OF CONTENTSChristoph Friedrich Blumhardt: Action in Waiting
Sylvia Plath: Black Rook in Rainy Weather
J. B. Phillips: The Dangers of Advent
Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster: Meditation
Henri Nouwen: Waiting for God
Bernard of Clairvaux: In Defense of Humility
Kathleen Norris: Annunciation
Meister Eckhart: Where God Enters
St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner: The Divine Dawning
Isaac Penington: Concerning the Light
Madeleine L'Engle: A Sky Full of Children
Alfred Delp: The Shaking Reality of Advent
Loretta Ross-Gotta: To be Virgin
William Stringfellow: The Penitential Season
J. Heinrich Arnold / Edith Stein: From the Stable to the Cross
Philip Britts: Yielding to God
Jane Kenyon: Mosaic of the Nativity
John Howard Yoder: The Original Revolution
Emmy Arnold: Christmas Joy
Karl Barth: To Believe
Óscar Romero / William Willimon: The God We Hardly Knew
Johann Christoph Arnold: Be Not Afraid
Gail Godwin: Genealogy and Grace
Leonardo Boff: The Man Who Is God
Gerard Manley Hopkins / Evelyn Underhill: The Light of the World
Dorothy Day: Room for Christ
Brennan Manning: Shipwrecked at the Stable
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Coming of Jesus in Our Midst
Romano Guardini: The Holy Mother
Annie Dillard: Bethlehem
Martin Luther: To
You Christ is Born
St. John Chrysostom: The Mystery
Giovanni Papini: Ox and Ass
Dorothee Soelle: The Christmas Gospel
C. S. Lewis: The Grand Miracle
Gustavo Gutiérrez: Christ's History, and Ours
Philip Yancey: The Visited Planet
Jane Tyson Clement / Thomas Merton: The Time of No Room
Eberhard Arnold: When the Time Was Fulfilled
Søren Kierkegaard: Only a Rumor
Ernesto Cardinal: The Wise Men
T. S. Eliot: The Journey of the Magi
John Donne: The Showing Forth of Christ
Gian Carlo Menotti: Love Alone
Jürgen Moltmann: The Disarming Child
Summary
Selections from the world's greatest spiritual writers provide inward preparation for the most widely celebrated - and most maligned - holiday of the year.
Foreword
Selections from the world’s greatest spiritual writers provide inspiration for the most widely celebrated holiday of the year.
Additional text
It's hard to go wrong with 40 essays and poems from theological writers such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, Madeleine L'Engle, Martin Luther, Kathleen Norris, Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Karl Barth and Síren Kierkegaard. These are not frivolous, feel-good Advent readings; they are deep, sometimes jarring reflections, many with a strong orientation toward social justice… This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves.
