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In God's Hands is the 2015 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book.

In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for truth and reconciliation in South Africa, into the childlike simplicity which Jesus tells us characterises the Kingdom of God.

Archbishop Tutu has produced a meditation on the infinite love of God and the infinite value of the human individual. Not only are we in God`s hands, he says, our names are engraved on his palms. Throughout an often turbulent life, Archbishop Tutu has fought for justice and against oppression and prejudice.

As we learn in this book, what has driven him forward is an unshakeable belief that human beings are created in the image of God and are infinitely valuable. Each one of us is a God-carrier, a tabernacle, a sanctuary of the Divine Trinity. God loves us not because we are lovable but because he first loved us. And this turns our values upside down. In this sense the Gospel is the most radical thing imaginable.

It is extremely moving that in this book Archbishop Tutu returns to something so simple and so profound after a life in which he has been involved in political, social and ethical issues that have seemed to be so very complex.

In God's Hands is the 2015 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book.

In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for truth and reconciliation in South Africa, into the childlike simplicity which Jesus tells us characterises the Kingdom of God.

Archbishop Tutu has produced a meditation on the infinite love of God and the infinite value of the human individual. Not only are we in God`s hands, he says, our names are engraved on his palms. Throughout an often turbulent life, Archbishop Tutu has fought for justice and against oppression and prejudice.

As we learn in this book, what has driven him forward is an unshakeable belief that human beings are created in the image of God and are infinitely valuable. Each one of us is a God-carrier, a tabernacle, a sanctuary of the Divine Trinity. God loves us not because we are lovable but because he first loved us. And this turns our values upside down. In this sense the Gospel is the most radical thing imaginable.

It is extremely moving that in this book Archbishop Tutu returns to something so simple and so profound after a life in which he has been involved in political, social and ethical issues that have seemed to be so very complex.

Über den Autor
Desmond Tutu
Zusammenfassung
Tutu is the particular choice of Archbishop Justin Welby as the author of this his first Lent Book. Reconciliation is an essential theme of Welby's own Archiepiscopal agenda.
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by the Archbishop of Canterbury

PART ONE
1 The Subversiveness of the Bible
2 We are created for Complementarity, for Togetherness, for Family
3 The Biased God
4 You Are Loved
5 It's All of Grace
6 In the Beginning, God; At the End, God

PART TWO
'Arch' in Conversation: A Spiritual Retrospective

Acknowledgements

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Fachbereich: Praktische Theologie
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781472908377
ISBN-10: 1472908376
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tutu, Desmond
Hersteller: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 195 x 131 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Desmond Tutu
Erscheinungsdatum: 04.12.2014
Gewicht: 0,161 kg
Artikel-ID: 129582106

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