Margaret Bendroth

The Spiritual Practice of Remembering

Buch

We often dismiss history as dull or irrelevant, but our modern disengagement from the past puts us fundamentally out of step with the long witness of the Christian tradition. Yet, says Margaret Bendroth, the past tense is essential to our language of faith, and without it our conversation is limited and thin. This accessible, beautifully written book presents a new argument for honoring the past. The Christian tradition gives us the powerful image of a vast communion of saints, all of God's people, both living and dead, in vital conversation with each other. This kind of connection with our ancestors in the faith, Bendroth maintains, will no… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-8028-6897-8
EAN: 9780802868978
Produktnummer: 14574562
Verlag: William B Eerdmans Pub Co
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 142 S.
Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.2 cm x D0.9 cm 181 g
Gewicht: 181

Über den Autor

Margaret Bendroth is director of the Congregational Library in Boston, Massachusetts, and a historian of American religion. Her other books include Fundamentalism and Gender, 1875 to the Present Growing Up Protestant: Parents, Children, and Mainline Churches; and A School of the Church: Andover Newton across Two Centuries.