Beyond The Broken Lights
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Preface
Prologue: Beyond The Broken Lights
Chapter 1. New Light
Chapter 2. The Weight Of Pain
Chapter 3. Living In The Gap: Between What We Dreamed And What We Got
Chapter 4. Why Doesn’t God Do More?
Chapter 5. The Stumbling Children Of Abraham
Chapter 6. To Know The Will Of God
Chapter 7. The Wide Reach Of Pentecost
Chapter 8. The Theology Of Extremity
Chapter 9. Living In The Gap: Between The Sacred And The Ordinary
Chapter 10. Sinners In The Hands Of An Aching God
Chapter 11. Let Those Angels Breathe
Chapter 12. Jesus And God – A Raid On The Inarticulate
Chapter 13. Jesus And Paul – In That Order
Chapter 14. If Jesus Came To Town
Chapter 15. Living In The Gap: Between Jesus And The Church
Chapter 16. Altars To The Wind
Additional Info
Taking its title from a line of a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, Beyond the Broken Lights is a thoughtful and inviting look at our questions and the need for clarity in the depths of the mystery of God. Like Tennyson, we cannot find satisfactory explanations, complete resolutions, or simple take-it-or-leave-it answers. Instead, our systems of theological position, conventional wisdom, and standard orthodoxy have their day and then cease to be. They can be described as “broken lights.”
Poole examines these broken lights, and tells us that since there are no other lights – no perfect, seamless, unbroken lights that human words can shine on sacred truth – it is the broken lights that become precious to us. These are the lights by which we live. Poole warns, however, that we must not clutch them too tightly lest we cut ourselves on them, or wave them, lest we injure someone; because, after all, they are broken lights.
Beyond these broken lights is God, somewhere past the place where words run out. The words that wait their turn inside this book seek to recover something that was before the broken lights, and they long to glimpse something that is beyond the broken lights.
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SKU (ISBN): 9781573122702
ISBN10: 157312270X
Charles Poole
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: February 2000
Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing
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