The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire: Scripture and the Renewal of the Christian Imagination: The 2020...

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Dom Mark Barrett

The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire

Scripture and the Renewal of the Christian Imagination: The 2020 Lent Book

Dom Mark Barrett

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Bloomsbury Continuum
03 March 2020

Christian prayer; Christian spirituality & religious experience; Christian life & practice

The 2020 Lent Book from Bloomsbury explores the vivid imagery of the Psalms and the Gospels as a path into scriptural prayer.

Scripture, and especially the Book of Psalms, has always formed the substance of the daily prayer of Christian monks and nuns. Monastic men and women spend more time among the scriptures each day than in most other activities.

How do such regular interactions with the texts of the Old and New Testaments help us renew our Christian imaginations; how might these reflective encounters enable all of us to discover the wind of the Spirit, the fountain of living water and the fire from which God speaks, within the printed pages of our Bibles?

In The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire, Mark Barrett, a Benedictine monk of Worth Abbey, offers a Lenten pathway through scripture, opening the gateway of sacred imagery as a mode of prayerful reflection. For each week of Lent he has selected a different image: the Dust; the Mountain; the Well; the Light and the Tomb.

In these richly imagined biblical symbols we are invited to find keys which can unlock both our experience of scripture and our understanding of our own hearts.

By: Dom Mark Barrett
Imprint: Bloomsbury Continuum
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
Weight: 163g
ISBN: 9781472968371
ISBN 10: 1472968379
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 03 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction Prelude to Lent: Stepping into the Story of Scripture 1 The Dust: Ash Wednesday and the First Week of Lent 2 The Mountain: Second Week of Lent 3 The Well: The Third Week of Lent 4 The Light: The Fourth Week of Lent 5 The Tomb: The Fifth Week of Lent Acknowledgements

Mark Barrett OSB, is a monk of Worth Abbey, Sussex, UK. His previous book was entitled Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of our Lives and was published by Darton, Longman and Todd.