Receiving the day : Christian practices for opening the gift of time / Dorothy C. Bass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bass, Dorothy C.

Series:

Practices of faith series.

The practices of faith series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time management--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Time management.

Time--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Time.

Sunday.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this spirituality of time, Dorothy Bass invites readers into a way of living in time that is alert to both contemporary pressures and rooted ancient wisdom. The celebrated editor of Practicing Our Faith 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 reevaluate our understanding of the tem

Contents:

Experiencing the fullness of time

This is the day that God has made

Receiving this day

The Sabbath opens creation for its true future

Keeping this Sabbath

The circling year draws us into the story of God

Living in the story, this year

Learning to count our days.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-130) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-35092-X

0-7879-5927-8

9786610350926

OCLC:

469668377