Timothy Radcliffe

Take the Plunge (eBook, ePUB)

Living Baptism and Confirmation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Take the Plunge explores baptism, showing how it touches the deepest dramas of human life.

Cardinal-elect Timothy Radcliffe holds a unique position in the modern Catholic Church, recently receiving one of the most senior and influential appointments the Catholic Church has on offer, namely becoming a cardinal. He was also Master of the Dominican Order in Rome for nine years. But he is a member of an Order of Preachers and is thus truly apostolic. The order's motto consists of one word, Veritas (Truth), and it is the vigorous pursuit of intellectual and emotional truth which is the hallmark of his writing.

This new book will not disappoint his admirers. Here, Cardinal-elect Radcliffe argues that Christianity will only thrive today, overcoming the challenges of secularism and religious fundamentalism, if we rediscover the beauty of baptism. It touches the deepest dramas of human life: birth, growing up, falling in love, daring to give oneself to others, searching for meaning, coping with suffering and failure, and eventually death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781441184498
• Artikelnr.: 38305174

Autorenporträt

Cardinal-elect Timothy Radcliffe has been long been one of the most popular preachers across the globe, speaking in retreats which he gives in English or in his equally fluent French.

Radcliffe has spent most of his life as a Dominican based at the order's Blackfriars base in Oxford, apart from his nine years as master of the order in Rome, but has always travelled widely, being in huge demand as a speaker.

His books have been bestsellers, particularly I Call You Friends, Seven Last Words and What Is the Point of Being a Christian?, which won the 2007 Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing.

His appeal is ecumenical too, and he has lectured in Westminster Abbey, while his book Why Go to Church? included a foreword by Rowan Williams, who was then Archbishop of Canterbury.

His other books include Alive in God, Take the Plunge and I Call You Friends, all published by Bloomsbury Continuum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. This Child?
2. What Name?
3. Commandments and Claim
4. Listening to the Word
5. The Community of Saints
6. Fight the Good Fight
7. The Oil of Gladness
8. A Fertile Word
9. The Moment of Choice
10. Stripped
11. Take the Plunge
12. God's Anointed
13. God's Holy People
14. The Paradoxes of Sanctity
15. Seeing in the Dark
16. Did you receive the Spirit?
17. Growing Up
Epilogue
Bibliography