Loosening the Roots of Compassion: Meditations for Holy Week and Eastertide

ELLEN BRADSHAW AITKEN

ISBN 10: 1561012440 / ISBN 13: 9781561012442

Published by Cowley Publications February 2006, 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Loosening the Roots of Compassion: Meditations for Holy Week and Eastertide
• Publisher: Cowley Publications February 2006
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1561012440
• ISBN 13: 9781561012442
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Liturgy & Worship

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Synopsis

Here is Holy Week and Eastertide reading to which you will return time and again. Here is real nourishment for body, mind, and soul, and for the remaking of the world. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken's meditations will “help you to send forth deep roots from your life into scripture and into the contemplation of Jesus' risen life. . . . Take what you need to help you pray your life and to discern new pathways of the resurrection in yourself and in the world around you-to loosen the roots of compassion within your heart.”

These meditations sing that “the resurrection is somehow at work everywhere,” building in us a new creation. Beautifully written, deeply considered, they invite us to tilt and turn the scriptural text as though it were a hologram-and then to do the same with our lives in light of those texts.

About the Author

Ellen BradshawAitken is associate professor of early Christian history and literature at McGill University, as well as an Episcopal priest. She is the author of Jesus' Death in Early Christian Memory and of numerous articles on the New Testament and early Christian life and worship. She is currently president of the Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars. She resides in Montreal, Quebec.