Stephen Cherry

Thy Will Be Done (eBook, ePUB)

The 2021 Lent Book

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 2021 Lent Book takes the Lord's Prayer as a basis for Lenten reflection.

At a time of change, uncertainty and widespread anxiety, we need to discover again the freshness of our most familiar spiritual resources. Stephen Cherry's Lent Book does exactly this by inviting the reader to immerse themselves in the most central, important and iconic of Christian prayers - the Lord's Prayer, the Our Father.

Mining the tradition for wisdom and insight, and finding inspiration in the theologians of the past such as St Paul, Gregory of Nyssa, John Calvin, but also more contemporary voices such as Evelyn Underhill, Simone Weil, and Michelle Obama, Thy Will Be Done presents the comforts and challenges of the prayer in 36 short chapters.

This most accessible Lent Book, rich in anecdote as well as analysis, is daily bread for the spiritually hungry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472978288
• Artikelnr.: 60499303

Autorenporträt

Dr Stephen Cherry is the Dean of King's College, Cambridge and is well known for presiding over the annual broadcast carol services from King's College Chapel enjoyed by millions around the world. He is the author of Barefoot Disciple (2010), Healing Agony (2012), The Dark Side of the Soul (2016) and Thy Will Be Done (2020).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART ONE: HEAVEN 1 The shape of the prayer 2 Motherly Father 3
Our Father 4 The problem of patriarchy 5 Who art in heaven 6 Hallowed be
thy name PART TWO: EARTH 7 On earth as it is in heaven 8 God's kingdom 9
The parable of the delayed train 10 Kingdom - really? 11 The kin-dom of God
12 What the prayer is not PART THREE: BREAD 13 Bread and wisdom 14 Bread
and justice 15 Daily bread 16 Day by day 17 Bread, and yet more bread 18
Manna-mentality and the foodie generation PART FOUR: FORGIVENESS 19 As we
forgive 20 Weird Christian thinking 21 What exactly needs to be forgiven?
22 The trouble with sin 23 Divine pardon and human forgiveness 24 Grace in
forgiving PART FIVE: TEMPTATION 25 Avoiding temptation 26 Lead us not 27
Temptation, test or trial? 28 The Evil One 29 Focused negativity 30 Test by
virus PART SIX: GLORY 31 The doxology from the Didache 32 Ultimate
fulfilment 33 Power - but what sort? 34 Glory 35 Amen 36 Thy will be done
Notes

Rezensionen

This is a book that accomplishes its aim with an understated wisdom.