Inside the Christmas Story
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-4411-2158-5 (ISBN)
Depressed by Winterval? Put 'Christ' back into Christmas with a fresh understanding of the Christmas story, based on daily Advent readings and meditations.
If you are troubled by the noise, pressure and materialism of secular Advent with its emphasis on material and commercial rather than spiritual preparation for Christmas, this book will help you to read and think about Advent and Christmas in a new way.
Co-authored by a New Testament specialist and a practising clinical psychologist, it explores the familiar narratives from the Christmas story with freshness and vigour, and draws out their implications for day-to-day living.
The Christmas story is full of themes that we often avoid in churches - asylum seekers and refugees; death; loss and suffering; old age; childlessness - but they can give a new depth and meaning to our Christmas celebrations.
Christmas will not seem the same again.
Anthony Bash works at the University of Durham where he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, Chaplain and Tutor for Postgraduates at Hatfield College, and a Teaching Assistant at Durham University Business School. Melanie Bash is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Lecturer at Newcastle University.
Preface
Foreword by The Rt Revd Lord Hope of Thornes, former Archbishop of York
Before we begin...
December 1 Christmas ...and Jesus
December 2 Christmas ...and the Rest of Life
December 3 Christmas ...and Science
December 4 Christmas ...and the Gospels
December 5 Christmas ...and a Family Tree
December 6 Christmas ...and Jesus' Parents
December 7 Christmas ...and Prophecy
December 8 Christmas ...and Zechariah
December 9 Christmas ...and Elizabeth
December 10 Christmas ...and Forgiveness
December 11 Christmas ...and a Girl called Mary
December 12 Christmas ...and Children
December 13 Christmas ...and Hardship
December 14 Christmas ...and Augustus
December 15 Christmas ...and Humility
December 16 Christmas ...and Shepherds
December 17 Christmas ...and Anna
December 18 Christmas ...and Simeon
December 19 Christmas ...and the Magi
December 20 Christmas ...and Presents
December 21 Christmas ...and Refugees
December 22 Christmas ...and Loss
December 23 Christmas ...and Food
December 24 Christmas ...and Jesus the man
December 25 Christmas
December 26 ‘They think it's all over ...'
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.10.2012 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 212 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4411-2158-7 / 1441121587 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4411-2158-5 / 9781441121585 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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