Love Came Down: Anglican Readings for Advent and Christmas

by Christopher L. Webber

Paperback, 2002

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"Easter Day is the center and crown of the Christian year, but no season of that year provides us with richer material for meditation than Advent and the twelve days of Christmas." So writes Christopher Webber in this thoughtful and inspiring collection of meditations from the most gifted Anglican writers of the past six hundred years. Love Came Down draws on the best sermons, books, poems, and hymns by these writers, with a reading for every day in Advent and for each of the twelve days of Christmas. Writers include Christina Rossetti, R. W. Church, F. D. Maurice, John Donne, Jeremy Taylor, Madeleine L'Engle, Phillips Brooks, John Keble, William Temple, Thomas Traherne, William Law, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many others. Brief biographies of the contributors are included.… (more)

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Morehouse Publishing (2002), 110 pages

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LibraryThing member auntieknickers
Anglicans really know how to do this stuff. Every reading can bring fresh insights and this is a book I will revisit frequently.
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