The Assurance of Hope: An Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826482716 ISBN 13: 9780826482716

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

Synopsis

Christopher Howse opens his inspiring new collection with a brilliant introduction in which he examines the origin of the word comfort and shows how its meaning has been devalued in common usage. Comfort is a rich concept and should not be taken as a simple thing. It is sometimes at its most stirring when the outlook is black, as this book bears testament.

The book contains over eighty extracts, in prose and verse, from a wide variety of spiritual writers of a Christian background who have won a place in the English-speaking tradition, including Augustine, Christina Rossetti, John Donne, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis, Hilaire Belloc and Emily Dickinson to name but a few.

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About the Author

Christopher Howse is an assistant editor of The Daily Telegraph and a regular contributor to The Spectator and The Tablet. Among his bestselling books for Continuum are Prayers for This Life (2005) and The Assurance of Hope (2006). He is the author of How We Saw It: 150 years of The Daily Telegraph (2004).

Review

'an excellent book to have beside you as you bask in the glow of a good hike in 2007...a collection reflecting a constant appetite for hope and the strong hand of religion among thinking, feeling people down the ages.'~ John Hinton, Catholic Times, February 2007 (John Hinton)

'an excellent book to have beside you as you bask in the glow of a good hike in 2007...a collection reflecting a constant appetite for hope and the strong hand of religion among thinking, feeling people down the ages.'~ John Hinton, Catholic Times, February 2007 (Sanford Lakoff)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0826482716
• ISBN 13: 9780826482716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Howse Christopher