Receiving the day : Christian practices for opening the gift of time / / Dorothy C. Bass
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Bass Dorothy C
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| Titolo: |
Receiving the day : Christian practices for opening the gift of time / / Dorothy C. Bass
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| Pubblicazione: | San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c2000 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (161 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 263 |
| Soggetto topico: | Time management - Religious aspects - Christianity |
| Time - Religious aspects - Christianity | |
| Sunday | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Experiencing the fullness of time -- This is the day that God has made -- Receiving this day -- The Sabbath opens creation for its true future -- Keeping this Sabbath -- The circling year draws us into the story of God -- Living in the story, this year -- Learning to count our days. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of Practicing Our Faith asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, Receiving the Day offers a language of attention, poetry, and celebration. Bass encourages us to reevaluate our understanding of the tem |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Receiving the day |
| ISBN: | 1-280-35092-X |
| 0-7879-5927-8 | |
| 9786610350926 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819087903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Practices of faith series.