The spiritual practice of remembering
By: Margaret Bendroth
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780802868978
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Memory; Christianity
Description: This accessible, beautifully written book presents a new argument for honoring the past. The Christian tradition gives us the powerful image of a vast communion of saints, all of God's people, both living and dead, in vital conversation with each other. This kind of connection with our ancestors in the faith, Bendroth maintains, will not happen by wishing or by accident. She argues that remembering must become a regular spiritual practice, part of the rhythm of our daily lives as we recognize our world to be, in many ways, a gift from others who have gone before. -- Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On keeping and tossing; title: Stranded in the present; title: Past imperfect; title: Memory loss; title: Great conversation; title: Communion of saints; title: Spiritual practice of remembering.