Advent/Christmas

This collection of 28 reflections on R. S. Thomas's poetry travels through the season, and follows one of the traditional patterns of themes explored in each Sunday of Advent: a Carmelite pattern of waiting, accepting, journeying and birthing.

Christmas and Easter, Advent and Lent, each focus on the central beliefs of Christian faith - Incarnation and Resurrection. In this collection of seasonal reflections, Samuel Wells unpacks the substance of these key Christian doctrines, and explores...

The season of Advent traditionally involved meditation upon the ‘Four Last Things’: heaven, hell, death, and judgement. The Love That Moves the Sun revives this ancient practice and marries it with contemporary concerns, recovering the...