The Country Parson ; The Temple

Forside
Paulist Press, 1981 - 354 sider
"the publishers should be congratulated for their newest...event. By making sixty of the greatest spiritual classics easily available in their new series, they have done much to further the spiritual renewal of the Church." The Christian World GEORGE HERBERT-THE COUNTRY PARSON, THE TEMPLE edited, with an introduction and foreword by John N. Wall, Jr. preface by A.M. Allchin The Sun arising in the East, Though he give light, and th' East perfume; If they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume. George Herbert (1593-1633) George Herbert (1593-1633) lived in England during the tempestuous reigns of James I and Charles I that saw the nation racked by conflict among Catholics, Hugh Churchmen, and Puritans. A member of a politically-active family, Herbert rejected a promising career as a member of Parliament for the simple life of a country parson. While busily involved in his pastoral duties he produced works of poetry and prose that have earned him a long-established place in English literary history. Collected here are two works originally published after Herbert's death at Bemerton in 1633: The Country Parson, a prose treatise on the duties, joys, and hardships of a pastor's life; and The Temple, a collection of poems. In them the literary genius of this humble priest whose spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety is revealed. Herbert's appeal for today is summed up by A.M. Allchin in his preface to this volume: "Without glossing over the fragility and brokenness of man's experience of life in time, he managed to reaffirm the great unities of Christian faith and prayer. These are the unities which draw together the separated strands in the Christian heritage, which draw together past and present in a living an creative appropriation of tradition." +

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INTRODUCTION
1
A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE OR THE COUNTRY PARSON HIS CHARACTER AND RULE OF HOLY LIFE
53
THE TEMPLE SACRED POEMS AND PRIVATE EJACULATIONS
117
THE DEDICATION
119
THE CHURCH PORCH
121
THE CHURCH
139
THE CHURCH MILITANT
317
POEMS NOT INCLUDED IN THE TEMPLE
327
BIBLIOGRAPHY
335
INDEXES
341
TEXTS AND SCRIPTURE
345
POEMS
352
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