Donna Schaper

Sabbath Keeping (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The third in Cowley's Cloister Book series, Sabbath Keeping is a collection of ten meditations, each exploring a different aspect of keeping the sabbath and ending with a prayer. Since it is a difficult art in a society that does not value rest, Schaper encourages small acts of sabbath keeping that initially focus on physical and mental renewal but soon broaden to questions of justice and power. She begins with a chapter called "What is Sabbath?" and goes to the Bible for definitions, from the ordinances surrounding sabbath in the Hebrew Bible to the gospel stories about the Sabbath. Other meditations concern sabbath and music, sabbath and the body, prayer, focusing and decluttering, sabbath and memory, sabbath as the relinquishing of power, and sabbath as an act of resistance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 94
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781461660743
• Artikelnr.: 38322270

Autorenporträt

Donna Schaper has been an ordained minister and activist for over fifty years. She has written thirty-nine books and hundreds of essays, features, and op-eds, including a humor series, "The Dolly Mama Does Religion." She has also worked with endowments for churches and nonprofits both large and small. For a decade she wrote an environmental column for the National Catholic Reporter eco-blog. For the last two decades, she has written daily devotionals for the United Church of Christ website that reaches 35,000 readers. She currently hosts a monthly conversation on the Brooklyn Rail site, called the Brooklyn Trail.