The Drama of Living
Becoming Wise in the Spirit
by David F. Ford
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Send NetGalley books directly to your Kindle or Kindle app
1
To read on a Kindle or Kindle app, please add kindle@netgalley.com as an approved email address to receive files in your Amazon account. Click here for step-by-step instructions.
2
Also find your Kindle email address within your Amazon account, and enter it here.
Pub Date Oct 21 2014 | Archive Date Mar 01 2015
Description
How can we live wisely in the twenty-first century, alert to God and to other people amid the ups and downs of modern life? We find ourselves in the middle of complex situations, relationships, responsibilities, ongoing dramas, and challenges. Our response to these circumstances requires us to draw on many sources and to constantly exercise imagination, discernment, and judgment.
In this sequel to his well-received book The Shape of Living, renowned theologian David Ford offers insights into living wisely in the Spirit in a culture of distraction. Ford provides a reflective contemporary Christian spirituality that is drawn from the Gospel of John, the work of internationally respected poet Michael O’Siadhail, and his own life experiences.
He explores themes such as the ordinary and public dramas of living, the centrality of face-to-face relationships, the habits that shape our lives, friendship and love, aging and dying, and jazz. Discussion questions for individual or group use are included.
David F. Ford (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Regius Professor of Divinity and director of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Program at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. He is also a Fellow of Selwyn College and the author or editor of more than fifteen books, including The Shape of Living.
Advance Praise
“A sequel to Ford’s The Shape of Living, The Drama of Living could be characterized as sapiential theology—reflection on theology that draws out its wisdom for daily living. Ford weaves together a mélange of sources, especially the Gospel of John and the poetry of his friend Micheal O’Siadhail. . . . A familiar theme for Ford is sounded in this book: the urgent need and opportunities for interreligious understanding and cooperation. Religious traditions at their best are about the pursuit and application of wisdom.”—Christian Century
“David Ford here combines a treatise in individual and social anthropology with a reading of the Fourth Gospel in order to assist us while we join him in the ‘search for wisdom in the drama of living.’ The interweavings among the themes are further strengthened by frequent citations in verse from the Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail. Altogether this is a book that may properly engage the attention of theological and humanistic readers alike.”—Geoffrey Wainwright, professor emeritus of Christian theology, Duke University
“By tearing down the wall of hostility between autobiography and theology, David Ford draws theology into dailiness, discarding the modern division of ‘head’ from ‘heart.’ This memoir unself-consciously blends personal experience, poetry, fiction, drama, jazz, Scripture, and the suffering of the disabled, those of the Shoah, and the dying, inviting us to read our own interiority through the great minds and tragic moments that have nourished us on the paths we have trod.”—Ellen Charry, Margaret W. Harmon Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781587433245 |
| PRICE | $19.99 (USD) |
Links
Average rating from 3 members
Readers who liked this book also liked:
