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151 pages ; 22 cm |
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"In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distills the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, and adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, and the long and agonizing struggle for truth and reconciliation in South Africa into the childlike simplicity which Jesus tells us characterizes 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 unshakable 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."--Page [4] of cover. |
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Lent.
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Meditations.
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Reconciliation -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Reconciliation -- Biblical teaching.
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God -- Love.
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Christianity.
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Christian life.
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| Added Title |
Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent book 2015 |
| ISBN |
9781620409763 |
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1620409763 |
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