Encountering Christmas

by Carolyn Sweers

Overview

This book is an attempt to defamiliarize the Christmas stories found in the Bible. Familiarity can result in a diminishment of wonder at the astounding news that God was manifest as a baby in a manger and that the event was announced by angels. The Christmas story is not about something that happened once. It has profound implications for understanding our own divine origin and task. That is why letting oneself be drawn into the stories as if for the first time can work wonders. Enter and see.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781949746969
Publisher:	Lettra Press LLC
Publication date:	03/11/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	136
File size:	517 KB
Age Range:	3 Months to 12 Years

About the Author

Carolyn Sweers grew up on an Iowa farm in the 1950's. It was there that she had her first experiences of the profound Silence she tries to describe in this book. These experiences, more than any others, shaped her life and led her to a career as a philosophy student and teacher. This book and others that she has had published recently, have a shared objective: to evoke insight in the reader. She knows from experience the importance of finding what Kierkegaard called "the truth for me." And, she shares the Socratic conviction that people have within them this truth. It simply needs to be revoked. That is what this book attempts to do.