My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul - Paperback
by Mark Oakley
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Language:EnglishPublisher:SPCK PublishingISBN-13:9780281080328ISBN-10:281080321UPC:9780281080328Book Category:Poetry, ReligionBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Christianity, EuropeanBook Topic:Inspirational & Religious, Literature & the Arts, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGZ913WS2
My Sour-Sweet Days: George Herbert and the Journey of the Soul
Mark Oakley reveals George Herbert as a fine companion with whom to examine the journey of the soul.
His poems are 'heart-work and heaven-work', embracing love and closeness, anger and despair, reconciliation and hope.
There is too an appealing and audacious playfulness about Herbert: he seems to take God on, knowing God will win, confident God will not abandon him.
This sense of relationship with...
Language:EnglishPublisher:SPCK PublishingISBN-13:9780281080328ISBN-10:281080321UPC:9780281080328Book Category:Poetry, ReligionBook Subcategory:Subjects & Themes, Christianity, EuropeanBook Topic:Inspirational & Religious, Literature & the Arts, English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCGZ913WS2
Mark Oakley is Dean of St John's College, Cambridge, and is a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, King's College London. He was formerly Canon Chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, overseeing the arts and learning programmes at the cathedral. Mark writes regularly for the Church Times and The Tablet and broadcasts frequently on BBC Radio 4. His latest bestselling...
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