A Mennonite Woman: Exploring Spiritual Life and Identity - Softcover

Nelson, Dawn Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1931038708 ISBN 13: 9781931038706

Publisher: Cascadia Publishing House, 2010

Synopsis

As Sara Wenger Shenk, President-Elect, Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, puts it, "Rooting Mennonite spirituality within the earthy settledness of her grandmother's story, Nelson lovingly shows the way toward a spirituality of pilgrimage, in the company of Jesus" In a book that is part narrative, part theology, part spiritual memoir, Dawn Ruth Nelson draws on a Mennonite background, encounter with Irish Catholic faith, and the spiritual life she discovers in her grandmother and her own everyday life to propose contemporary forms of spiritual formation and expression. "Although Nelson's six suggestions for contemporary spirituality are focused on Mennonite tradition and experience," observes Joann Wolski Conn, Professor of Christian Spirituality, Neumann University, "their transforming power make them applicable for anyone desiring Christian formation." C. Arnold Snyder, Professor of History, Conrad Grebel University College, comments that "Nelson's search leads from her grandmother's life in Mennonite community, through peace work in Ireland and engagement with the Roman Catholic tradition, and finally to the essential inner/outer balance of the Anabaptist spiritual tradition-a response of discipleship made possible by the spiritual connection to the living vine, Jesus Christ."

About this title

About the Author

Dawn Ruth Nelson, Harleysville, Pennsylvania, is a Mennonite pastor and spiritual director. She has worked in a peace ministry in Ireland and as chaplain among people with disabilities. Nelson enjoys reading novels, eating chocolate, bird watching, seeing movies, experiencing silence, and being with her family.

From the Back Cover

In A Mennonite Woman, part narrative, part theology, part spiritual memoir, Dawn Ruth Nelson asks us to wake up to what is shaping us spiritually as contemporary Christians in North American culture. Discover why Mennonites have been drinking deeply from contemplative spiritual formation wells in the last 30 years. Experience the story of twentieth-century Mennonite agrarian spirituality through the lens of one woman s life and one seminary.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cascadia Publishing House
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1931038708
• ISBN 13: 9781931038706
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 184