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Watch for the light : readings for Advent and Christmas.

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Action in waiting / Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt -- Black rook in rainy weather / Sylvia Plath -- The dangers of Advent / J.B. Phillips -- Meditation / Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster -- Waiting for God / Henri Nouwen -- In defense of humility / Bernard of Clairvaux -- Annunciation / Kathleen Norris -- Where God enters / Meister Eckhart -- The divine dawning / St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner -- Concerning the light / Isaac Penington -- A sky full of children / Madeleine L'Engle -- The shaking reality of Advent / Alfred Delp -- To be a virgin / Loretta Ross-Gotta -- The penitential season / William Stringfellow -- From the stable to the cross / J. Heinrich Arnold / Edith Stein -- Yielding to God / Philip Britts -- Mosaic of the Nativity / Jane Kenyon -- The original revolution / John Howard Yoder -- Christmas joy / Emmy Arnold -- To believe / Karl Barth -- The God we hardly knew / Oscar Romero / William Willimon -- Be not afraid / Johann Christoph Arnold -- Genealogy and grace / Gail Godwin -- The man who is God / Leonardo Boff -- The light of the world / G.M. Hopkins / Evelyn Underhill -- Room for Christ / Dorothy Day -- Shipwrecked at the stable / Brennan Manning -- The coming of Jesus in our midst / Dietrich Bonhoeffer -- The holy mother / Romano Guardini -- Bethlehem / Annie Dillard -- To you Christ is born / Martin Luther -- The mystery / St. John Chrysostom -- Ox and ass / Giovanni Papini -- The Christmas gospel / Dorothee Soelle -- The grand miracle / C.S. Lewis -- Christ's history, and ours / Gustavo Gutiérrez -- The visited planet / Philip Yancey -- The time of no room / J.T. Clement / Thomas Merton -- When the time was fulfilled / Eberhard Arnold -- Only a rumor / Soren Kierkegaard -- The wise men / Ernesto Cardenal -- The journey of the Magi / T.S. Eliot -- The showing forth of Christ / John Donne -- Love alone / Gian Carlo Menotti -- The disarming child / Jurgen Moltmann.

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BV40.W29

Publisher

Farmington, PA : Plough Pub. House., 2001

Physical Description

xvii, 330p., 20 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

087486917X

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Subject(s)

Practical Theology
Advent -- Meditations.
Advent. Christmas.

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