To Everything a Season: A Spirituality of Time [Hardcover]

Bonnie Thurston (Author)

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Publication Date: September 14, 1999

Rediscover the Christian understanding of time as God's sacred and bountiful gift. A main selection of the Spiritual Book Associates.

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Bonnie Thurston, Ph.D. is Professor of New Testament at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.

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"Time is the creation of a generous God who always provides not only the bare essentials, but usually a feast."

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Crossroad (September 14, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0824517849
• ISBN-13: 978-0824517847
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,610,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Take Time To Read This, May 19, 2000

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This review is from: To Everything a Season: A Spirituality of Time (Hardcover)

I first picked up Bonnie Thurston?s ?To Everything a Season; A Spirituality of Time? thinking it was a book of meditations, a type of writing I find very helpful in my spiritual life. That proved not to be case. Instead, it turned out to be just as good: a seven-chapter reflection on the mystery of time, with discussions of time?s history, its language, its theology, its seasons, and its place in our lives as we attempt to ?make Sabbath? in a harried world.

I found this book insightful and helpful. Thurston is a professor and ordained in the Disciples of Christ, a denomination I haven?t encountered much since my days at the Yale Divinity School. She?s scholarly and spiritual, writes fluently, and has a genuine pastoral concern for those of us attempting ?to reclaim the rhythm of creation by God for rest and re-creation.? The ?time exercises? at the end of the first four chapters were very useful in helping me understand how I think about and use time.