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Walking Backwards to Christmas
Stephen Cottrell
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Description for Walking Backwards to Christmas
Paperback. Though the Christmas story is well known, most of us have learnt it from school nativity plays and carols. On the whole, this familiar version is more concerned with light than darkness. The backwards approach taken here allows the movement to be in the opposite direction, enabling us to get under the skin of a complex narrative. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRCA; HRCG9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 152.
Using the brilliant, deceptively simple device of telling the Christmas story backwards, Stephen Cottrell helps us encounter it as if for the first time. Narrating the story from the perspective of key characters gives us insights into its many horrors and uncertainties as well as its joys. The book may be used as a fresh and unique Advent study course or even as an adult Nativity play. Though the Christmas story is well known, most of us have learnt it from school nativity plays and carols. On the whole, this familiar version is more concerned with light than darkness. ... Read more
Using the brilliant, deceptively simple device of telling the Christmas story backwards, Stephen Cottrell helps us encounter it as if for the first time. Narrating the story from the perspective of key characters gives us insights into its many horrors and uncertainties as well as its joys. The book may be used as a fresh and unique Advent study course or even as an adult Nativity play. Though the Christmas story is well known, most of us have learnt it from school nativity plays and carols. On the whole, this familiar version is more concerned with light than darkness. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
147g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281071470
SKU
V9780281071470
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2
About Stephen Cottrell
Stephen Cottrell is the Bishop of Chelmsford, serving Essex and East London. He is a well-known writer and speaker on evangelism, spirituality and catechesis. He is married to Rebecca and they have three boys.
Reviews for Walking Backwards to Christmas
Cottrell has a gift for inhabiting the most diverse perspectives . . . All are rendered in glorious physical language, a strange but apt mix of Scripture and modern idiom. The result is revelatory.
The Tablet
An action-packed 114 pages brings the "well-known" story to new life.
Methodist Recorder
The author's approach tilts the narrative on ... Read more
The Tablet
An action-packed 114 pages brings the "well-known" story to new life.
Methodist Recorder
The author's approach tilts the narrative on ... Read more