2nd Hand - Seeing God In The Ordinary By Michael Frost

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Seeing God in the Ordinary is an appeal to recover the place of the imagination in the Christian life, to rediscover the use of metaphor in a prose flattened world, to see God in the ordinary. By a careful examination of film, literature, and other aspects of contemporary culture as well as the Gospels the author argues for a robust faith that embraces human experience in all its forms, that is open to the intuitive, and that has the capacity to fill us with wonder and astonishment.

In the midst of the current flood of books on Christian Spirituality, Frost explores the way in which the great themes of Christian faith are signaled and traced by specific reference points in culture. The outcome is a book not for a quick read, but for a slow, delighted pondering. Frost's particular interest is in artistic expression in poetry, film, and narrative that opens the reader and ponderer to freshness. Who would have thought that Kafka, Keets and Harvey Keitel could show up together, but they do here. Frost has produced a probe of a world not yet holy, but being made so by the presence of God's holiness in the day to dayness of our lives. A suggestive read!

paperback 203 pages 11.5x18cm