The Practices of Faith
1 primary work • 2 total works
Book 5
This title invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. It asks hard questions about how our injurious attitude toward time has distorted our relationships with our innermost selves, with other people, with the natural world, and with God. As an alternative to the rhetoric of management and mastery, "Receiving the Day" offers a language of attention, poetry and celebration. Bass encourages us to re-evaluate our understanding of the temporal and thereby to participate fully in the Christian practice of knowing time as God's gift.
Many Christians are searching Eastern religious traditions for spiritual guidance, unaware of the riches within their own faith. This work aims to answer their hunger for a way of living by exploring 12 central practices that define right living within Christianity. The authors place these practices in historical and biblical context, re-examining their particular relevance to our times, and showing how they give depth and meaning to daily life.