Bücher von Steven Shakespeare

Reminiscent of Malcolm Guite's bestselling Sounding the Seasons, this beautiful collection offers scripture-inspired poems for each of the major seasons of the Christian year. It includes:¿ The Call to Prayer (with poetry on the nature of prayer);¿ Advent, Christmas and Epiphany;¿ Lent, Easter and Pentecost (including Wings of Wounded Glory, a sequence for Holy Week);¿ Transforming Ordinary Time (including some feasts which fall outside the major seasons);¿ In the School of Mary (poetic reflections on Mary, see as a model for prayer, contemplation and prophecy).An introduction considers the relationship between prayer and poetry and offers suggestions for using the book in public and private worship settings, and a closing sequence contemplates Mary as a figure of prayers and witness.

This beautifully crafted daily prayer companion is for everyone who wants to integrate spirituality with daily life. Rooted in one of the most pressing concerns of our age, it offers a fourfold pattern for prayer throughout the day to renew attention, understanding, compassion and delight towards creation.

Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence challenges the standard view that Kierkegaard's God is infinitely other than the world. It argues that his work immerses us in the paradoxical nature of existence itself, and opposes any flight into another world.