Watch for the light : readings for Advent and Christmas.

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Title:

Watch for the light : readings for Advent and Christmas.

ISBN:

9780874869170

Publication Information:

Farmington, PA : Plough Pub. House, c2001.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) ; 20 cm.

Contents:

Action in waiting / Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt -- Black rook in rainy weather / Sylvia Plath -- The dangers of Advent / J.B. Phillips -- Meditation / Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster -- Waiting for God / Henri Nouwen -- In defense of humility / Bernard of Clairvaux -- Annunciation / Kathleen Norris -- Where God enters / Meister Eckhart -- The divine dawning / St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner -- Concerning the light / Isaac Penington -- A sky full of children / Madeleine L'Engle -- The shaking reality of Advent / Alfred Delp -- To be a virgin / Loretta Ross-Gotta -- The penitential season / William Stringfellow -- From the stable to the cross / J. Heinrich Arnold / Edith Stein -- Yielding to God / Philip Britts -- Mosaic of the Nativity / Jane Kenyon -- The original revolution / John Howard Yoder -- Christmas joy / Emmy Arnold -- To believe / Karl Barth -- The God we hardly knew / Oscar Romero / William Willimon -- Be not afraid / Johann Christoph Arnold -- Genealogy and grace / Gail Godwin -- The man who is God / Leonardo Boff -- The light of the world / G.M. Hopkins / Evelyn Underhill -- Room for Christ / Dorothy Day -- Shipwrecked at the stable / Brennan Manning -- The coming of Jesus in our midst / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The holy mother / Romano Guardini -- Bethlehem / Annie Dillard -- To you Christ is born / Martin Luther -- The mystery / St. John Chrysostom -- Ox and ass / Giovanni Papini -- The Christmas gospel / Dorothee Soelle -- The grand miracle / C.S. Lewis -- Christ's history, and ours / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- The visited planet / Philip Yancey -- The time of no room / J.T. Clement / Thomas Merton -- When the time was fulfilled / Eberhard Arnold -- Only a rumor / Soren Kierkegaard -- The wise men / Ernesto Cardenal -- The journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- The showing forth of Christ / John Donne -- Love alone / Gian Carlo Menotti -- The disarming child / Jurgen Moltmann

Subject Term:

Advent -- Meditations.

Christmas -- Meditations.

Summary:

A collection of spiritual readings by various authors for the Advent and Christmas season.

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This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, there's 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.

Ecumenical in scope, these fifty devotions invite the reader to contemplate the great themes of Christmas and the significance that the coming of Jesus has for each of us - not only during Advent, but every day. Whether dipped into at leisure or used on a daily basis, Watch for the Light gives the phrase "holiday preparations" new depth and meaning.

Includes contributions by these and other writers:

C. S. Lewis, Madeleine L'Engle, Thomas Merton, and Philip Yancey Dorothy Day, Henri Nouwen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Oscar Romero, and Edith Stein Martin Luther, Meister Eckhart, Eberhard Arnold, and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt T. S. Eliot, John Donne, and Sylvia Plath Karl Barth, Will Willimon, Jürgen Moltmann, and J. B. Phillips Kathleen Norris, Brennan Manning, and Evelyn Underhill Annie Dillard, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Gerard Manley Hopkins Romano Guardini, St. John Chrysostom, and Giovanni Papini Jane Kenyon, Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster, Isaac Penington, and Alfred Delp

Author Notes

Born in 1906 in Breslau, Germany, now part of Poland, Dietrich Bonhoeffer became a radical theologian. He was raised in a home where the intellect was honored. His father was a physician and professor of psychiatry at the University of Berlin. Such scholars as the church historian Adolph von Harnack, the theologian and sociohistorian Ernst Troeltsch, and Max Weber, a founder of modern sociology, were frequent guests of the Bonhoeffers.

A precocious student who evidenced a degree of independence of thought that was at odds with the reverence in which his fellow students held their professors, Bonhoeffer decided early on the church and theology as his life's work. He was a product of liberal studies that were greatly influenced by Karl Barth.

Bonhoeffer's doctoral dissertation, Sanctorum Communio: A Dogmatic Investigation of the Sociology of the Church, was published in 1930, at the time he was teaching theology at the University of Berlin. A year's study in the United States followed and leadership of the World Alliance of Churches, where his flair for languages and his genial disposition won him many friends. His American and British friends tried unsuccessfully to dissuade him from returning to Germany after the rise of Hitler in 1932. But Bonhoeffer returned, and joining the so-called Confessing Church of those who resisted Germanizing the church, he conducted an illegal seminary in Finkenwalde. Out of this experience came his Life Together; out of his struggles to encourage Christians to resist the Nazis came The Cost of Discipleship, his study of the Sermon on the Mount.

Although Bonhoeffer escaped military duty by joining the intelligence service, he was eventually arrested and imprisoned by the Gestapo and was linked to the attempt on Hitler's life. His Letters and Papers from Prison (translated in 1953), was his testimony of faith; the writing gave the American death of God movement the term religionless Christianity.

Bonhoeffer was killed in 1945 while he was in prison in Flossenburg.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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Publisher's Weekly Review

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 Smren Kierkegaard. These are not frivolous, feel-good Advent readings; they are deep, sometimes jarring reflections, many with a strong orientation toward social justice (other authors include liberationists Leonardo Boff, Gustavo Gutirrez and Oscar Romero). "The love that descended to Bethlehem is not the easy sympathy of an avuncular God, but a burning fire whose light chases away every shadow, floods every corner, and turns midnight into noon," explain the editors. This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

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