Giving it Up

Daily Bible readings from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day

Maggi Dawn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

208 Seiten

2025 | 2nd edition
BRF (The Bible Reading Fellowship) (Verlag)
978-1-80039-553-4 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

The idea of 'giving something up for Lent' is widely known and discussed today - yet how many know that the ancient discipline of the Lenten fast had several purposes? It was designed as a reminder of our daily dependence on God for all our needs, to draw us closer to God in prayer, to reconnect with the idea of community, and to help us follow Christ's journey through the wilderness and on to Jerusalem. How many of us simply abstain from some treat or other for a few weeks and fail to engage with this deeper meaning of Lent? This book shows how Lent can be a time for exploring a different kind of 'giving up', one that can transform our lives. If we are to draw closer to God, we have to be willing to give up some of our entrenched ideas about him, in order to see him more clearly. In a series of daily studies, Maggi Dawn shows how, throughout Scripture, people were radically changed by encountering the true God. If we follow their examples, we can allow the Holy Spirit to shed his light on our ideas of God that are too harsh, too small, too fragile, or too stern. Then God will graciously reveal himself to us and bring us to an Easter joy that is richer and more profound than ever before.

Maggi Dawn is a priest in the Episcopal Church in the USA. She is diocesan theologian in the Diocese of Rhode Island and professor of theology at Durham University. She was previously associate dean of Yale Divinity School.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.11.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	1-80039-553-1 / 1800395531
ISBN-13	978-1-80039-553-4 / 9781800395534
Zustand	Neuware