BRF Advent Book: Embracing Humanity

BRF Advent Book 2024 – readings and reflections by Isabelle Hamley

Isabelle Hamley explores what it meant for God to become flesh and how this enables us to understand what it means to be human.

Seeing humanity in a new light

God became flesh at Christmas. But how does God, who created all things, live within the limitations of humanity – limitations that humanity itself often resents and tries to transcend? And what does it truly mean to be human?

As contemporary society grapples with questions of identity, justice and medical ethics, Embracing Humanity deftly explores how different aspects of being human are both inhabited and transformed in the incarnation.

Through the lens of Advent and Christmas, Isabelle Hamley guides us through daily reflections and prayers, encouraging us to meditate on being human in the light of God's choice to reach out to us in Jesus.