Loves Endeavour Loves Expense

Author : William Hubert Vanstone
Publisher : Darton Longman and Todd
ISBN 13 : 9780232527117
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense written by William Hubert Vanstone and published by Darton Longman and Todd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Morning glory, starlit sky, soaring music, scholar's truth, Flight of swallows, autumn leaves, memory's treasure, grace of youth. Open are the gifts of God, gifts of love to mind and sense; Hidden is love's agony, love's endeavour, love's expense.'One of the most influential and best-loved spiritual books of the twentieth century. Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense is a reflection on how individuals and communities respond to the love God has for Creation. It is widely regarded as a great work of practical theology and spirituality. The late Canon W. H. Vanstone also wrote The Stature of Waiting and Fare Well in Christ.

Author : W H Vanstone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780232529074
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loves Endeavour Loves Expense written by W H Vanstone and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Response of Being to the Love of God. Through the experience of human love I have argued in the book that the love of God must be infinitely more costly, more precarious and more exposed than it is commonly represented to be, and that it is the divine self-exposure which give meaning to nature, to human freedom and to the being of the Church.

Author : Rachel Mann
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786222833
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Mysteries written by Rachel Mann and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love's Mysteries reflects powerfully on our fundamental limitations as creatures of flesh and bone, and what our experiences of grief, loss, and fragility tell us about God. Rachel Mann explores what happens when our bodies are under pressure, suggesting that the precariousness of life might be where we most authentically encounter God.

Author : C. S. Lewis
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Four Loves written by C. S. Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Four Loves is a 1960 book by C. S. Lewis which explores the nature of love from a Christian and philosophical perspective through thought experiments. The book was based on a set of radio talks from 1958 which had been criticized in the U.S. at the time for their frankness about sex. C.S. Lewis examines storge or empathy love; philia, friendship love; eros, romantic love; and agape, or God love. Excerpt: "GOD is love," says St. John. When I first tried to write this book I thought that his maxim would provide me with a very plain highroad through the whole subject. I thought I should be able to say that human loves deserved to be called loves at all just in so far as they resembled that Love which is God."

Author : Robert Atwell
Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1853116009
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love written by Robert Atwell and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These exquisite anthologies draw together readings from scripture and a wide range of literary sources to offer an attractively varied selection of 100 readings in celebration of a birth, of love and friendship, of a life that has ended.

Author : Martyn Percy
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 1786223171
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Humble Church written by Martyn Percy and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bold and provocative invitation, Martyn Percy imagines what the post-pandemic Church might look like and sets out what it needs to learn. It argues that the Church needs to stop obsessing about itself – its size, its strategies to shore up decline, its waning public influence – and rediscover how to live as the body of Christ. In other words, what does it need to do in order to become more like Christ? As Christ poured out his life for the sake of others, he considers ways in which the Church might imitate Christ in practice today. Whenever Jesus visited anywhere beyond the confines of the Jewish community he immediately became socially useful, and so this extols such virtues as humble service in the community, not because it is an effective way to grow the Church, but because it is faithful to Christ’s own example. Avoiding responses such as exasperation, righteous anger at shortcomings or wishful thinking about returning to the past, he sets out a vision for the Church's future that is both biblical and christological. Incisive, imaginative and engagingly written, this will resonate deeply with many lay and ordained members of the Church.

Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Wild Goose Publications
ISBN 13 : 1849522677
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love for the Future written by David Osborne and published by Wild Goose Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Climate change, pollution and diminishing resources mean that the future will be difficult for life on earth. We need the courage to face up to what is happening, the determination to work at the problems and the freedom to let go of the old ways of living which are causing such damage to the earth. David Osborne tells of a long pilgrimage on foot to the island of Iona, an ancient centre of Celtic Christianity, and draws on the Bible, the Christian tradition and other sources of wisdom to suggest the qualities we need to develop in ourselves for the journey we face into the future.

Author : Geoffrey Rowell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191029300
Total Pages : 819 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love's Redeeming Work written by Geoffrey Rowell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work draws together the works of major writers from the sixteenth century to the present day who have contributed to this development. Each selected writer is introduced with a brief biography, which gives background information about the author, and highlights the relationships that existed with others from the same period. This will enable the reader to set the writings in their proper context, enhancing understanding of the material. The selections then follow. In some instances these may be familiar, but other examples will introduce fresh ideas for every reader. Each writer's selection is concluded with a list of source texts, which can encourage readers to explore in more depth those areas which intrigue and excite them. Love's Redeeming Work traces a path that has enabled Anglicanism in particular, and the wider church as well, to develop an ever-deepening awareness of the need for a spiritual depth in the Christian life informed by a better knowledge of tradition. In exploring this material, it is the compilers' hope that readers will find new riches that will encourage and sustain their own quest for holiness.

Author : Raymond Tomkinson
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334048850
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Called to Love written by Raymond Tomkinson and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life comprises a series of transitions: from childhood to adolescence, adulthood, senescence, death and life beyond death. Christian life is graced by transition into Christlikeness which requires us to make choices, continually, to remain faithful to Christ. At times of transition we seek the will of God as we journey through life making decisions about what to do and where to go next in the service of God and our neighbour. This experience is common to all Christians but in Called to Love the focus is on those in ordained ministry and those aspiring to ordination and explores how we discern God's will and how we make decisions about the direction of our ministry. At the heart of our ministry is love, but how is Love best served. Does the freedom which Love bestows allow us, as individuals ans the Church of God, to employ such decision making methods as seem best to us? What can organisational practices in decision making can offer us? Raymond Tomkinson considers how we articulate the stirrings of the heart to others.

Author : George M. Newlands
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556359195
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theology of the Love of God written by George M. Newlands and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we make theology more constructive? Twentieth-Century British discussion about the Christian 'image' of God and 'myth' of the Incarnation has been widely admired for its honesty but criticized as being too insular and too negative. Neither criticism applies to this book, the first major publication to come from the author, who is now Professor Emeritus of Divinity at the University of Glasgow. He offers a systematic exposition of the most characteristic Christian doctrine in dialogue with other thinkers around the world and across the centuries. His aspiration is to do for 'love' what eminent German theologians have recently done for 'faith' and 'hope.' He knows well that the idea of the love of God, although so prominent in the Bible, has been under fire in the modern world -- for many serious reasons, here taken seriously. 'Talk to God is notoriously complex,' he writes, 'and talk of love notoriously sentimental.' But he carefully demonstrates that the tradition that begins in the Bible is still vital enough to help crucially in the new urgent reconstruction of Christian belief. From a more profound theology of the love of God at work in the creation and redemption of man, a renewal of faith and hope would follow.