It's hard to go wrong with 40 essays and poems from theological writers such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, Madeleine L'Engle, Martin Luther, Kathleen Norris, Henri Nouwen, Philip Yancey, Karl Barth and Síren Kierkegaard. These are not frivolous, feel-good Advent readings; they are deep, sometimes jarring reflections, many with a strong orientation toward social justice This collection, born of obvious passion and graced with superb writing, is a welcome even necessary addition to the glutted holiday bookshelves.

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Selections from the world's greatest spiritual writers provide inspiration for the most widely celebrated holiday of the year.

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Though Christians the world over make yearly preparations for Lent, theres a conspicuous lack of good books for that other great spiritual season: Advent. All the same, this four-week period leading up to Christmas is making a comeback as growing numbers reject shopping-mall frenzy and examine the deeper meaning of the season.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt: Action in Waiting

Sylvia Plath: Black Rook in Rainy Weather

*J. B. Phillips: *The Dangers of Advent

Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster: Meditation

Henri Nouwen: Waiting for God

Bernard of Clairvaux: In Defense of Humility

Kathleen Norris: Annunciation

Meister Eckhart: Where God Enters

St. Thomas Aquinas / Karl Rahner: The Divine Dawning

Isaac Penington: Concerning the Light

Madeleine L'Engle: A Sky Full of Children

Alfred Delp: The Shaking Reality of Advent

Loretta Ross-Gotta: To be Virgin

William Stringfellow: The Penitential Season

*J. Heinrich Arnold / Edith Stein: *From the Stable to the Cross

Philip Britts: Yielding to God

Jane Kenyon: Mosaic of the Nativity

John Howard Yoder: The Original Revolution

Emmy Arnold: Christmas Joy

Karl Barth: To Believe

Óscar Romero / William Willimon: The God We Hardly Knew

Johann Christoph Arnold: Be Not Afraid

Gail Godwin: Genealogy and Grace

Leonardo Boff: The Man Who Is God

Gerard Manley Hopkins / Evelyn Underhill: The Light of the World

Dorothy Day: Room for Christ

Brennan Manning: Shipwrecked at the Stable

Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Coming of Jesus in Our Midst

Romano Guardini: The Holy Mother

Annie Dillard: Bethlehem

Martin Luther: To You Christ is Born

St. John Chrysostom: The Mystery

Giovanni Papini: Ox and Ass

Dorothee Soelle: The Christmas Gospel

*C. S. Lewis: *The Grand Miracle

Gustavo Gutiérrez: Christ's History, and Ours

Philip Yancey: The Visited Planet

Jane Tyson Clement / Thomas Merton: The Time of No Room

Eberhard Arnold: When the Time Was Fulfilled

Søren Kierkegaard: Only a Rumor

Ernesto Cardinal: The Wise Men

*T. S. Eliot: *The Journey of the Magi

John Donne: The Showing Forth of Christ

Gian Carlo Menotti: Love Alone

Jürgen Moltmann: The Disarming Child