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Unearthly Beauty: Through Advent with the Saints
Magdalen Smith
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Description for Unearthly Beauty: Through Advent with the Saints
Paperback. A reading a day for the busy season of Advent, drawing on the wisdom, inspiration and intriguing idiosyncrasies of holy people of the past. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HRCS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Advent is about arrival - the arrival of Jesus into our world in poverty and vulnerability amidst unusual circumstances. For the world then, as now, Christ's coming generated a mixed response from a variety of people - anxiety, threat, expectation and hope. For Christians, entering Advent calls for fresh reflection on our faith, and this book aims to provide stimulating material for the journey up to (and including) Christmas. It is inspired by well-known, as well as more obscure, holy people from the past whom the church calls saints - people of unearthly beauty who reveal to us a deeper ... Read more
Advent is about arrival - the arrival of Jesus into our world in poverty and vulnerability amidst unusual circumstances. For the world then, as now, Christ's coming generated a mixed response from a variety of people - anxiety, threat, expectation and hope. For Christians, entering Advent calls for fresh reflection on our faith, and this book aims to provide stimulating material for the journey up to (and including) Christmas. It is inspired by well-known, as well as more obscure, holy people from the past whom the church calls saints - people of unearthly beauty who reveal to us a deeper ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
SPCK Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780281077182
SKU
V9780281077182
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99-1
About Magdalen Smith
Magdalen Smith is Diocesan Director of Ordinands and a priest in the Diocese of Chester. She has a background in the visual arts and is interested in the dialogue between faith and contemporary culture. She is a retreat leader and spiritual director, and the author of Steel Angels: The personal qualities of a priest and Fragile Mystics: Reclaiming a prayerful ... Read more
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