Receiving the Day: Christian Practices for Opening the Gift of Time (The Practices of Faith Series)

by Dorothy C. Bass

Hardcover, 1999

Status

Available

Collection

SPIRITUAL FORMATION

Description

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

Publication

Jossey-Bass (1999), Edition: 1, 142 pages

Series

The Practices of Faith Series

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