Patience: How We Wait upon the World

Harned, David Baily

ISBN 10: 1561011479 / ISBN 13: 9781561011476

Published by UNKNO, 1997

Seller Inventory # 1561011479-3-36350753

Synopsis:

In this book, David Baily Harned makes a persuasive case for the significance of patience as an essential ingredient of the moral life. In a bold and invigorating manner, the author addresses contemporary existence-the lives of individuals, families, communities, and nations-and demonstrates how the Christian vision informs our efforts to live in a chaotic and violent world as faithful, hopeful, loving children of God. This essay in theological ethics is rooted in classic texts: the Old and New Testaments, as well as the writings of Augustine, Gregory I, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas à Kempis, John Calvin, Søren Kierkegaard, and W. H. Vanstone. In graceful prose and careful analysis, David Harned both inspires and instructs. This new edition also includes an afterword by one of his former students who explores the value of this study by applying its insights to the life and leadership of George Washington.

From the Publisher: Patience: How We Wait Upon the World
This new study in Christian ethics and spirituality explores the crucial role of patience in the life of individuals, families, communities and nations. Once central to Christian tradition, this discipline of the soul has been emptied of its original meaning and dismissed as apathy and passivity.

Harned begins with the biblical idea of God's patience in the Hebrew and Christian scriptures, and goes on to explore some of the distinctive ethical voices in the Christian tradition. He argues that the exercise of patience is crucial to the life of familes as well as to the pursuit of justice, reconciliation, and communal life.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Patience: How We Wait upon the World
Publisher: UNKNO
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good