Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir
Autor Richard Lischeren Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 mar 2023
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780197649046
ISBN-10: 0197649041
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 164 x 237 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0197649041
Pagini: 400
Dimensiuni: 164 x 237 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.75 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Lives--we learn to live by attending to lives. In our hunger for coherence we are tempted to simplify the lives of others as well as our lives. In this beautifully written book Richard Lischer's truthful account of lives, Christian and non-Christian lives, testifies to the complexity of what it means to live well. In this time when it is by no means clear what it means to live honesty as a Christian, Lischer's account of these lives gives us a way to go on. This is a book of wisdom that took a lifetime to write.
Lischer has a storyteller's genius, a pastor's instinct for emotional authenticity, a preacher's eye for tracing gospel truth, a scholar's skill at critical inquiry, and a Christian understanding of love and suffering. As he opens up these faithful lives, he shows how true is John Donne's dictum: 'The art of salvation is but the art of memory.'
A book holy and humane, reverential yet playful, absorbing but provocative, challenging and deeply affirming. After reading you feel wiser, more compassionate, more perceptive, more comfortable with your own struggles and shortcomings—but above all, eager to revisit your own yearnings and searchings, and recognise in them the loving patience of the Holy Spirit. Richard Lischer has shown us where treasure is to be found, and reignited our desire to find it.
This is an odd but oddly compelling book...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers.
There is much to ponder in this humane and challenging book.
Richard Lischer's new book, Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir, is a cross between academic monograph and devotional guide, annotated bibliography and narrative compendium. Guiding us enthusiastically through a broad range of spiritual autobiographies, Lischer is as committed to motivating us to read these works as he is to explaining how they ask us to rethink modern autobiography in general and Christian autobiography in particular.
Lischer is a gifted stylist, who writes beautifully, and there are gems of wisdom and insight to be found on every page. This is an extraordinarily rich book, in which we are offered a window on the workings of God amidst the messiness and brokenness of a cast of flawed individuals, and in which its grittiness is evenly matched by its holiness. It is both deeply human and deeply authentic. For this reason, and for so many others, tolle lege.
Lischer has a storyteller's genius, a pastor's instinct for emotional authenticity, a preacher's eye for tracing gospel truth, a scholar's skill at critical inquiry, and a Christian understanding of love and suffering. As he opens up these faithful lives, he shows how true is John Donne's dictum: 'The art of salvation is but the art of memory.'
A book holy and humane, reverential yet playful, absorbing but provocative, challenging and deeply affirming. After reading you feel wiser, more compassionate, more perceptive, more comfortable with your own struggles and shortcomings—but above all, eager to revisit your own yearnings and searchings, and recognise in them the loving patience of the Holy Spirit. Richard Lischer has shown us where treasure is to be found, and reignited our desire to find it.
This is an odd but oddly compelling book...Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, general readers.
There is much to ponder in this humane and challenging book.
Richard Lischer's new book, Our Hearts Are Restless: The Art of Spiritual Memoir, is a cross between academic monograph and devotional guide, annotated bibliography and narrative compendium. Guiding us enthusiastically through a broad range of spiritual autobiographies, Lischer is as committed to motivating us to read these works as he is to explaining how they ask us to rethink modern autobiography in general and Christian autobiography in particular.
Lischer is a gifted stylist, who writes beautifully, and there are gems of wisdom and insight to be found on every page. This is an extraordinarily rich book, in which we are offered a window on the workings of God amidst the messiness and brokenness of a cast of flawed individuals, and in which its grittiness is evenly matched by its holiness. It is both deeply human and deeply authentic. For this reason, and for so many others, tolle lege.
Notă biografică
Richard Lischer is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Duke Divinity School. He is the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America (OUP, 1995, Expanded, 2020), as well as two spiritual memoirs, Open Secrets: A Memoir of Faith and Discovery and Stations of the Heart: Parting with a Son.