Remembering That It Happened Once: Christmas Carmen for Spiritual Life All Year Long
Ebook
Overview
Poets have long given us poems as portals into the stunning event and astonishing affirmation at the core of Christian faith: the Eternal Word has taken on flesh in Jesus of Nazareth. This is the mystery and message this collection of poems explores. The Latin word for “poetry” is carmen. Over time, carmen formed into our English word “charm.” These are Christmas carmen for the believer and doubter, the joyful and sorrowful, and the seeker longing for the experience of “God with us.” They are for opening the heart, widening the imagination, and shaping the soul. They are for remembering and beholding the mystery of the Incarnation in everyday life all year long.
“Dennis Johnson has gone to the huge trouble of collecting these
Christmas poems that override the jadedness, the mind deadening,
and the all too familiar. This wondrous collection (with much that
is new) is a must-read for us. My favorite lines (so far) are from
John Shea, offering a five-year-old whose ‘quarter eyes inflated to
silver dollars’ and who blurts out, ‘The baby was God’! Find your
own favorite here. This collection is revelatory in its force, the
old revelatory narrative made freshly available and now revelatory
to us here and now.”
—Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
- Title: Remembering That It Happened Once: Christmas Carmen for Spiritual Life All Year Long
- Authors: Dennis Johnson, Bonnie Bowman Thurston
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666726503, 9781666726497, 9781666732603, 1666726508, 1666726494, 1666732605
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666726503
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T19:56:14Z
Dennis L. Johnson is a retired American Baptist minister with
over forty years of pastoral leadership in metropolitan Chicago and
Charleston, West Virginia, with special attention on worship and
spiritual formation. He has served in numerous denominational roles
and as seminary adjunct faculty. A personal interest has been
linking faith and literature. He is the author of To Live in
God: Daily Reflections with Walter Rauschenbusch. He and his
wife Holly live in Lexington, Kentucky.