Inside the Christmas Story

Inside the Christmas Story

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An Advent book which encourages the reader to think about Christmas in a new way, drawing out the implications for day-to-day living in the familiar narratives.

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Inside the Christmas Story by The Revd Anthony Bash

Depressed by Winterval? Put 'Christ' back into Christmas with a fresh understanding of the Christmas story, based on daily Advent readings and meditations. If you are troubled by the noise, pressure and materialism of secular Advent with its emphasis on material and commercial rather than spiritual preparation for Christmas, this book will help you to read and think about Advent and Christmas in a new way. Co-authored by a New Testament specialist and a practising clinical psychologist, it explores the familiar narratives from the Christmas story with freshness and vigour, and draws out their implications for day-to-day living. The Christmas story is full of themes that we often avoid in churches - asylum seekers and refugees; death; loss and suffering; old age; childlessness - but they can give a new depth and meaning to our Christmas celebrations. Christmas will not seem the same again.
Anthony Bash works at the University of Durham where he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion, Chaplain and Tutor for Postgraduates at Hatfield College, and a Teaching Assistant at Durham University Business School. Melanie Bash is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist with the Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Lecturer at Newcastle University.
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ISBN 13 9781441121585
ISBN 10 1441121587
Title Inside the Christmas Story
Author The Revd Anthony Bash
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published 2012-10-11
Number of pages 160
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.