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Theosomnia
eBook - A Christian Theology of Sleep
ISBN/EAN: 9781784504953
Umbreit-Nr.: 2262290
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 168 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 21.02.2018
Auflage: 1/2018
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>Sleep occupies around one third of a person's life and is the subject of research across many disciplines. In this groundbreaking new monograph, Andrew Bishop explores sleep by creatively drawing on resources of the Christian tradition.<br><br>Sleep is a subject which demands theological attention, because of the central place it occupies in contemporary reflection on what it is to be human. Offering original research, this book investigates sleep for the first time from a theological position, looking at all key questions that a theological treatment of sleep raises, including issues of identity and personhood, sleep and mortality, resurrection, and renewal and healing.</p>
- Kurztext
- Sleep occupies around one third of a person's life and is the subject of research across many disciplines. In this groundbreaking new monograph, Andrew Bishop explores sleep by creatively drawing on resources of the Christian tradition.Sleep is a subject which demands theological attention, because of the central place it occupies in contemporary reflection on what it is to be human. Offering original research, this book investigates sleep for the first time from a theological position, looking at all key questions that a theological treatment of sleep raises, including issues of identity and personhood, sleep and mortality, resurrection, and renewal and healing.
- Autorenportrait
- Andrew Bishop is a Canon of Guildford Cathedral, Coordinating Chaplain to the University of Surrey and author of Eucharist Shaping and Herbert's Liturgy and Society: Church, Mission and Personhood (Ashgate/Routledge: 2016)