Prayers And Meditations

256 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The pieces in this volume are taken from all religions and traditions with the purpose of providing material for prayer and meditation. They are arranged in seven sections following the Canonical Hours of the Chruch: Matins, Prime, Tierce, Sext, Nones, Vespers and Compline. Each section gathers poems and prose according to theme and mood and suiting the hours of the day. Sources include Herbert, Hopkins, Donne, Christina Rossetti, Cowper, St Anselm, Cardinal Newman, Bunyan, Blake, Bonhoeffer, Emily Dickinson, Herrick, Wesley, Mother Theresa, Tennyson, Spenser, Simone Weil, Kierkegaard, St Francis, the Book of Common Prayer, the Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist Scriptures, the Dead Sea Scrolls.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Religion, allgemein
• ISBN: 9781857157253
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.10.1995
• Größe: 165 x 108 mm
• Verlag: Everyman
• Herausgegeben von: Peter Washington