Vintage Saints and Sinners ITPE -  Marsh

Vintage Saints and Sinners ITPE

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Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2017
Inter-Varsity Press,US (Verlag)
978-0-8308-4496-8 (ISBN)
17,45 inkl. MwSt
Saints were not simply superstar Christians with otherworldly piety. When we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they're not all that different from you and me. With humor and vulnerability, Karen Marsh introduces us to brothers and sisters who challenge and inspire us with their honest faith.
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Foreword INDIES Award Finalist


Saints are people too.
The word saint conjures up images of superstar Christians revered for their spectacular acts and otherworldly piety. But when we take a closer look at the lives of these spiritual heavyweights, we learn that they also experienced struggle, doubt, and heartache.
In fact, we learn that in many ways they're not all that different from you and me.
Narrating her own winding pilgrimage through faith, Karen Marsh reveals surprising lessons in everyday spirituality from these "saints"—folks who lived and breathed, and failed and followed God. Told with humor and vulnerability, Vintage Saints and Sinners introduces us afresh to twenty-five brothers and sisters who challenge and inspire us with their honest faith.
Using the included conversation starters, you can join Karen on her journey with the likes of Augustine, Brother Lawrence, and Saint Francis, as well as Amanda Berry Smith, Søren Kierkegaard, Dorothy Day, Howard Thurman, Flannery O'Connor, and many more. Let their lives and their wisdom be an invitation to authentic life in Christ.

Karen Wright Marsh is executive director and cofounder of Theological Horizons, a university ministry that has advanced theological scholarship at the intersection of faith, thought, and life since 1991. Karen directs daily programs, writes resources and curriculum, teaches weekly classes, mentors students, leads the staff, and speaks at retreats, churches, and campus ministries. She holds degrees in philosophy and linguistics from Wheaton College and the University of Virginia. Karen lives in Charlottesville, Virginia, with her husband, Charles Marsh.

Foreword by Lauren Winner



Introduction: Notes from the Crossroads



Part I: Asking


Søren Kierkegaard: Take a Long Walk

Augustine: Reconsider Sainthood

Thérèse of Lisieux: Take the Little Way

C. S. Lewis: Wake up to Joy

Henri Nouwen: Be the Beloved

Flannery O'Connor: Get Down Under Things

Martin Luther: You Shall Not Die but Live!

Amanda Berry Smith: Lean in, Lean On

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Live Unreservedly, Grounded in God

Mother Teresa: Stay Faithful (Anyway)

A. W. Tozer: Pursue True Blessedness

Brother Lawrence: Practice the Presence



Part II: Walking


Thomas Merton: Be a Real Christian

Benedict and Scholastica: Choose the Good Life

John Wesley: Quit the Holy Club

Francis and Clare of Assisi: WWJD?

Dorothy Day: Make Some Trouble

Howard Thurman: Make a Swinging Door

Julian of Norwich: Rest in God?s Goodness

Mary Paik Lee: Taste the Bittersweet

Aelred of Rievaulx: Find Yourself a Soul Friend

Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up, Sing Out!

Ignatius of Loyola: Get Practical

Juana Ines de la Cruz: Take Delight in God's Beauty—Within You

Sophie Scholl: Knock a Chip out of the Wall



Conclusion: Resting

Acknowledgments

In Their Own Words: Further Reading

Conversation Starters

Notes

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Illinois
Sprache englisch
Maße 139 x 209 mm
Gewicht 260 g
Themenwelt Sonstiges Geschenkbücher
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
Religion / Theologie Christentum Moraltheologie / Sozialethik
ISBN-10 0-8308-4496-1 / 0830844961
ISBN-13 978-0-8308-4496-8 / 9780830844968
Zustand Neuware
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