Description
| Product ID: | 9780232525588 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Stature of Waiting |
| Authors: | Author: W. H. Vanstone |
| Page Count: | 128 |
| Subjects: | Christianity, Christianity |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating We set great store by activity and busy-ness. We want to be ''in control''. We value what we ''do'' more than who we are. So when we become ill, or retire from work, or suffer an enforced period of inactivity, our self-esteem is threatened. This classic of spiritual writing transforms our understanding of the experience of illness, or of being out of work, of feeling inactive and powerless. Experiences of dependence and of waiting are becoming increasingly frequent and widespread in contemporary life and yet we evade, repudiate or resent them. Vanstone's book, a modern classic of the Anglican spiritual tradition, looks at our attitudes to illness, to being out of work, to not 'doing' anything. He draws on the story of the passion in John's Gospel to transform our understanding of these experiences, by presenting Jesus as a figure who, in his waiting, discloses the deepest dimension of the glory of God. |
| Imprint Name: | Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2004-07-01 |