In God's Hands
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2015
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:4th Dec '14
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
A profound and intimate meditation on the human condition.
In God's Hands is the 2015 Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book.
In this little gem of a book, Archbishop Desmond Tutu distils the wisdom forged through a childhood of poverty and apartheid, an adulthood lived in the glare of the world's media, and the long and agonising struggle for truth and reconciliation in South Africa, into the childlike simplicity which Jesus tells us characterises the Kingdom of God.
Archbishop Tutu has produced a meditation on the infinite love of God and the infinite value of the human individual. Not only are we in God`s hands, he says, our names are engraved on his palms. Throughout an often turbulent life, Archbishop Tutu has fought for justice and against oppression and prejudice.
As we learn in this book, what has driven him forward is an unshakeable belief that human beings are created in the image of God and are infinitely valuable. Each one of us is a God-carrier, a tabernacle, a sanctuary of the Divine Trinity. God loves us not because we are lovable but because he first loved us. And this turns our values upside down. In this sense the Gospel is the most radical thing imaginable.
It is extremely moving that in this book Archbishop Tutu returns to something so simple and so profound after a life in which he has been involved in political, social and ethical issues that have seemed to be so very complex.
This is a cracking book. Buy it. It will change your Church * Church of England Newspaper *
ISBN: 9781472908377
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 136g
160 pages