After the Church: Divine Encounter in a Sexual Age - Couverture souple

Davis, Claire Henderson

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1853117366 ISBN 13 : 9781853117367

Editeur : Canterbury Press Norwich, 2007

Synopsis

Claire Henderson Davis is a theologian, dance artist and writer. In her first book, "After the Church", she weaves her own story of coming to terms with her Christian identity (she is the daughter of Roman Catholic priest and theologian Charles Davis), through a re-telling of the Christian narrative in a contemporary idiom. This striking and original book recognizes that though the institutional church may be collapsing, the Christian story has a richness and depth that we would be foolish to ignore in our search for wholeness and integrity. In six chapters - Storytelling, Beginning and Ending, Incarnation, The Trinity, The Body of Christ, and, With My Body I Thee Worship, she reworks traditional spiritual themes in a radically contemporary way, offering a pattern for faith and belief that will resonate with all spiritual seekers today.

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

This is a moving account of Claire's journey from the tyranny of a received doctrine to an authentic personal understanding of her own Christian life. Both her parents started that journey by leaving the Roman Catholic Church. What they started as an external path towards the truth, their daughter has completed through an internal re-creation of herself from her own depths. This passage from a received creed to a meaningful inner faith is what the present age is demanding of Christian believers. This account will be a help to others who are engaged in the same struggle. --Neville Symington

'Beautifully written and bravely told, Claire Henderson Davis' story places a powerful challenge before the Christian Church.' Richard Holloway --Richard Holloway

Poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote God must be allowed to surprise us. Claire Henderson Davis offers us an amazing blend of personal biography, accumulated experience, depth psychology and contemporary interpretation to jolt us into fresh understandings of such images and concepts as The Fall, Babel, The Good Samaritan or The Incarnation that point beyond both crass consumerism and idolised identities to suggest a constantly surprising, open, forgiving story of human relationships. --Micheal O Siadhail

'Beautifully written and bravely told, Claire Henderson Davis' story places a powerful challenge before the Christian Church.' Richard Holloway --Richard Holloway

Poet Patrick Kavanagh wrote God must be allowed to surprise us. Claire Henderson Davis offers us an amazing blend of personal biography, accumulated experience, depth psychology and contemporary interpretation to jolt us into fresh understandings of such images and concepts as The Fall, Babel, The Good Samaritan or The Incarnation that point beyond both crass consumerism and idolised identities to suggest a constantly surprising, open, forgiving story of human relationships. --Micheal O Siadhail

Biographie de l'auteur

Claire Henderson Davis is a theologian, dance artist and writer, and Director of PublicWork Ltd, a company working to renew liturgy as public work through an engagement with contemporary art forms, a political commitment to public space and a shared vision of the common good (www.publicwork.co.uk).

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Canterbury Press Norwich
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1853117366
• ISBN 13: 9781853117367
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128