Author: John FlavelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consolation
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A Token for Mourners
Author: John FlavelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consolation
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
A Token for Mourners, Or The Advice of Christ to a Distressed Mother, Bewailing the Death of Her Dear and Only Son
Author: John FlavelFacing Grief
Author: John FlavelPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800402157
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
In 1674, two years after his second wife's death, John Flavel published A Token for Mourners. In it he meditates on the words of Luke 7:13: 'And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, 'Weep not.' From this verse the author helps the reader to think about grief, distinguishing 'moderate' sorrow from 'immoderate'. He spells out what is appropriate for a Christian mourner and what is not. This book is full of Scripture, counsel, warning, and wisdom gained from prayerful reflection on the personal experience of affliction in loss and grief. A best-seller for more than 150 years in both Britain and America, this little book gave much comfort to generations of Christian parents who suffered the heart-breaking experience of the loss of children. Now republished as Facing Grief: Counsel for Mourners, this attractive new edition makes Flavel's Token accessible once again in the form in which it knew such popularity - a small book, just the right size for carrying, and reading slowly, with meditation, reflection and prayer.
A Potent Spell
Author: Janna Malamud SmithPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618446735
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Every parent has felt that certain dread: your toddler gets lost in the mall; your teenager isn't home by curfew; your third-grader walks to school alone. The psychotherapist Janna Malamud Smith rigorously argues that fear of child loss has the keenest effect on mothers and has proven to be a powerfuly underrated motivation for them throughout history. Bearing the brunt of responsibility for keeping children safe and healthy, mothers constantly accommodate to the need to be vigilant. Their fears make them vulnerable in many ways, affecting their daily lives in the workplace, at home, and within the social hierarchy. Smith takes the long view of this phenomenon, uncovering a buried message to mothers in advice books from the days of the Puritans to the present, in medicine and psychology, in art and literature. It is a history brimming with mothers' stories from ancient times to today. Like Arlie Hochschild's The Second Shift and Ann Crittenden's The Price of Motherhood, A Potent Spell confirms women's real experience of motherhood in America.
A Token for Mourners
Author: John FlavelA Token for Mourners
Author: John FlavelThe Religious System of China
Author: Jan Jacob Maria GrootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Religious System of China
Author: J.J.M. de GrootThe Religious System of China
Author: Jan Jakob Maria GrootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ancestor worship
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Mourner's Companion
Author: Robert Gordon (D.D., Minister of the Free High Church, Edinburgh.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description