The Coming of God - Softcover

Boulding, Maria

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ISBN 10: 0970186517 ISBN 13: 9780970186515

Publisher: The Printery House, 2000

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The Coming of God explores the ways in which God comes to us – in events, in people, in prayer. There is the hope that does not deceive, grace in the midst of our disasters, and light where we stumble in the darkness.

If you are so involved with the struggle of living that you feel you have no time or space for God, yet are inwardly dissatisfied, you are already being drawn into the central experience of salvation. For at the heart of all our experiences are need and longing. We are an Advent people. We look for the coming of God. And because God is a self-giving God he is committed to his people forever.

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From the Publisher:

This book was first published nearly 20 years ago and has been out of print and difficult to find for the last five years. The Printery House is proud to publish a new third edition of this treasured classic. The book has been completely re-typeset and modest changes have been made to improve language inclusivity and conformity to American spelling and usage.

“This is an impressive book. It is well organized and clearly presented. More important than that, however, is the author’s familiarity with scripture, her unfolding of its message, her use of non-scriptural material to bolster and explain in other ways the central message of the word of God. She especially uses patristic sources well, and quotations from later writers [...] are particularly appropriate.” Abbot Timothy Kelly, O.S.B., St. John’s Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota. Taken from Weavings

“Rarely does one find a book of such spiritual insight and depth as is found in The Coming of God. Maria Boulding demonstrates the art of lectio divina brought to its rich fulfillment in reflections on a treasury of scriptural, patristic, and other spiritual classics. The reader comes to the realization of how the mysterious yet wondrous comings of God into our lives are the sheer gift of divine grace. This book is destined to become a spiritual classic.” Abbot Gregory Polan, O.S.B., Conception Abbey, Conception, Missouri.

About the Author:

Maria Boulding was one of a large family, and became a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in England. The joy of God’s Word in scripture, discovered especially through monastic lectio and liturgy, is central to her life. Convinced that Christian tradition invites us all, whatever our particular vocation, to contemplative union with God, she has tried to spread love of the Word through her writings. Since 1985 she has lived as a hermit with the support of her community, praying, growing vegetables, and working for the Augustinian Heritage Institute as a translator.

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