The Women of Advent: Reflections on the Coming of Life and the Priority of the Poor - Couverture souple

Sauls, Stacy F.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 170427768X ISBN 13 : 9781704277684

Editeur : Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

During Advent, the season of preparation for Christmas, Christians look to the convergence of creation’s past, present, and future in the coming of Jesus Christ. In a moving series of reflections, Bishop Stacy F. Sauls examines how the lives of four women at the center of Advent—Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist; Anne, the mother of Mary; Mary, the mother of Jesus; and Eve, the mother of all living—draw together God’s promises to the faithful through history, the coming life that will fulfill these promises, and the “in between” of the present world in which new creation stands tantalizingly close-at-hand and yet still beyond our full grasp.With fresh and accessible perspective on often-neglected parts of the Church’s foundational narrative, Sauls connects the witness of Elizabeth, Anne, Mary, and Eve to today’s “women of Advent” and to those who will inherit their work of faithfully but boldly bearing salvation history to its climax. The promise of God that emerges from the prologue of these women is glorious but also challenging; exhilarating but also unnerving; for it is “a fundamental and permanent inversion of worldly order.” It is a future in which “the lowly are lifted up, the hungry are filled with good things, and the rich are sent away empty.”At is core, The Women of Advent proclaims the good news of God’s intimate and relentless love for humanity at its most vulnerable, and challenges the faithful of today to begin living into the new creation birthed of the Christmas miracle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 170427768X
• ISBN 13: 9781704277684
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 56
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