Drew Lawson

Movings of Divine Love: The Love of God in the Letters of John Woolman

Herausgeber: Martin, Charles H.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes available many of the letters of John Woolman and offers Drew Lawson's reflections on themes arising from Woolman's letters in the light of Lawson's own experience of the spiritual journey. The book investigates the following themes: the love of God, brokenness, abandonment to God, being led through God's love, crucifixion (paying the price of faithfulness), and resurrection. Woolman's words describe the eternal in ordinary events and resonate across time. All of Woolman's writings - journal, pamphlets, and letters - issued from a life lived deeply within the culture of the Religious Society of Friends in the eighteenth-century Atlantic colonies. This was a culture steeped in the Christian tradition, in Scripture, in a life lived within a faith community, and in a deep understanding of Quaker ways and what it meant to be a Quaker. Woolman was committed to the life of his faith community. He was immersed in the sacred texts of the Bible and in the young, one-hundred-year-old tradition of the Religious Society of Friends. Under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, Woolman helped give his inheritance new life and an original expression, and that is why his writings are still of great interest to Friends and the wider Christian community. Woolman's letters raise questions on how we listen to a voice from the past, a voice steeped in the love of God. How do we interpret words written from the Silence?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barclay Press
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781734630046
• ISBN-10: 1734630043
• Artikelnr.: 60599075

Autorenporträt

Drew Lawson is an experienced retreat leader, spiritual director, poet, and artist. He was trained in the art of spiritual direction at the Jesuit Center for Spiritual Growth in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Religious Society of Friends and the Catholic Church. He was the founding director of Daybreak, an ecumenical spiritual centre in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Lawson has recently facilitated two-year and one-year spiritual formation programmes for Quakers and pilgrims from other traditions. For a number of years, Lawson has been exploring the spirituality of the hermit tradition. He has lived for over thirty years in a small intentional community in the Whipstick Forest in rural Victoria, Australia.