Bültmann & Gerriets
Rethinking Christmas
von S T Jr. Kimbrough
Verlag: Resource Publications
Taschenbuch
ISBN: 978-1-7252-7283-5
Erschienen am 15.06.2020
Sprache: Englisch
Format: 229 mm [H] x 152 mm [B] x 5 mm [T]
Gewicht: 131 Gramm
Umfang: 80 Seiten

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Biografische Anmerkung

In the poems that appear here imagination plays a significant role. We do not know exactly what people expect or anticipate at Advent, but we know it can be radically different, depending on one's situation in life: the poor, the homeless, those enveloped in war, the wealthy, the desperately ill or injured. What one awaits does not change the nature of Christ's coming, but it greatly influences how Christ is received. One thing is quite clear: it is the love of God that descends to earth in this child, a child of peace and goodwill. If one is not awaiting these things, one's celebration may be well-meaning but very wrong-headed.
These poems imagine what Advent and Christmas are not and what they might be. How might they be seen through the eyes of the poor and marginalized? How might they be viewed by a business concern? How are they misunderstood? What does Christmas mean, when a bell rings on Christmas Day, and a church building has been destroyed and all that remains is the bell tower?



S T Kimbrough, Jr. holds a PhD from Princeton Theological Seminary and is currently a Research Fellow of the Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition at Duke Divinity School. He has taught on leading theological faculties in Europe (Bonn University, Germany), the Illiricus Faculty in Zagreb (of former Yugoslavia), and in the USA (Princeton and New Brunswick, New Jersey; Wesley Seminary [Washington, DC]; and Drew University). He has published numerous books on theology, history, and music with Wipf and Stock, including sixteen books of poetry.


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