The Wind, the Fountain and the Fire: Scripture and the Renewal of the Christian Imagination: The 2020 Lent Book

by Mark Barrett

Overview

The 2020 Lent Book from Bloomsbury is based around an analysis of the imagery of the Psalms.

The Book of Psalms has always formed the substance of the daily prayer of Christian monks and nuns. In The Wind, The Fountain and the Fire, a Benedictine monk offers a path for all of us through the five weeks of Lent, by opening the Psalms as a gateway to scriptural prayer.

Powerful imagery abounds in these ancient poems of prayer. The book finds in these images keys which can unlock both our understanding of scripture and knowledge of our own hearts. The chapter themes are: The Desert, the Mountain, the Well, the Pool and the Tomb. The Psalter is seem to be both the gateway to and the summation of all the other books of the Bible. The psalms put into words the messy complexity of how we actually experience our relationship with God and one another as well as all the swamps and wild places of our private emotions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472968371
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	02/11/2020
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Dom Mark Barrett is a Monk of Worth Abbey. His previous book Crossing: Reclaiming the Landscape of our Lives was published by Darton, Longman and Todd. In 2013, he published an audiobook called Truly Seeking God.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

Prelude to Lent: Stepping into the Story of Scripture 11

1 The Dust: Ash Wednesday and the First Week of Lent 35

2 The Mountain: The Second Week of Lent 63

3 The Well: The Third Week of Lent 93

4 The Light: The Fourth Week of Lent 122

5 The Tomb: The Fifth Week of Lent 150

Acknowledgements 183