Between Heaven and Charing Cross

Between Heaven and Charing Cross

by Martin Warner (Author)

Synopsis

Martin Warner sets out to give an intelligent and spiritual account of the adventure of faith. This will cover new ground but also dig in the familiar routine of daily life for the possibility of faith in God. With some originality and courage, Warner has based his book on the vesting prayers used by the celebrant at the Eucharist. But a scriptural metaphor best describes the book's contents. In Genesis, God promises to make Abraham's descendants as many as the stars in the night sky. This book recovers a vision of the stars for understanding the inheritance of that promise today. What goes on in our minds when we begin to think about prayer, worship and God ourselves? How do we label and identify what we mean by spirit? Jesus Christ, who is God and man, invites us to look at the implications of the binding by God of God himself to humanity. Here is a new paradigm of discipleship. Finally Friendship with God is seen as a foundation for understanding human dignity. Throughout all this the universal aspect of the vesting prayers is re-applied a?? for finally we are clothed in resurrection bodies.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 16 Apr 2009

ISBN 10: 1847065384
ISBN 13: 9781847065384

Media Reviews
This lively book. John Armson, Fairacres Chronicle, Winter 2009.
Book ExtractChurch Times, 25/09/09
Martin Warner article in Church Times, 14/08/09, with mention of book
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He [Warner] shows a deeply sacramental understanding of the world and of existential oppeness to transcendence. Robin Baird-Smith, The Times, February 2010.
The author reflects on taking responsibility in life, the power of understanding and memory and how music and art convey a sense of transendence, among other topics. A thoughtful book. The Baptist Times, 21st May 2010.
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Reviewed in The Pastoral Review, September/October 2010 'It offers sustenance to all those seeking rich, Christian spiritual nourishment in their hectic modern lives. This is not spiritual fast food, but it is slim enough to digest comfortably'
'An engrossing book that repays serious study.'--,
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Book Extract Church Times, 25/09/09
. ..deserves careful consideration. And as a mere 'jobbing priest and preacher, ' reading it explains all too well why he is at Saint Paul's Cathedral and I am not!...There is a very beautiful and vivid 'meditation' on death that combines theology, psychology and poetry in a way that resonates well with my own experience...Fr Warner offers a challenge that we get right the liturgical balance 'between mystery and mystification, or between simplicity and superficiality.' Good News, Vol 75 No. 4
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'An engrossing book that repays serious study.'--Sanford Lakoff
Author Bio
Canon Martin Warner is Canon Pastor of St Paul's Cathedral in London. Formerly the Priest of Our Lady at Walsingham, An experienced preacher retreat giver and spiritual director, his work Known to the Senses was published by Continuum.