Three Mountains to Freedom
John Dudley Davies
Three Mountains to Freedom Practice Interpretation of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians The Archbishop of Wales’s Lent Book for 2016 In seven ‘steps’, this book follows Paul’s pilgrimage across three climactive view-points: Faith, Unity and Freedom. Paul is struggling to work out the meaning of Christ for a wide variety of communities, across boundaries of culture, language and social background. As the Archbishop of Wales notes in his Foreword, the central message is that we are saved by faith in Christ alone, and we seek to make this real in our contemporary struggles with issues of race, gender, poverty and inequality. John Davies tells how Paul’s letter was specially valuable to the Christian movement in South Africa during the years of apartheid. He also finds significant connections between Paul’s situation and that of the Christian movement in Wales. In fact the message is for many different communities in today’s world. The book is equipped with questions and devotional suggestions, for use as a 5-part or 7-part course – either for Lent or for more general service in individual or group study. I am delighted to commend this as my Lent Book for 2016, knowing full well that it will repay pondering at any time. – Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales Bishop John Davies makes Paul’s letter to the Galatians immensely accessible, unfolding meaty theology and New Testament scholarship with the lightest of touches, seasoned by anecdotes from his courageous ministry in apartheid South Africa… The book is far wider than its Welsh base, and positively teems with scathing one-liners… – Bishop David Wilbourne, Church Times, January 15, 2016. John Dudley Davies, formerly Bishop of Shrewsbury, is Honorary Assistant Bishop of St. Asaph, Church in Wales. PRACTICE INTERPRETATION SERIES, 5 ISBN 9781905679355 pbk 104 pp. £15.95. Deep discount available on bulk orders.
Deo Publishing, Two Gates, Blandford Forum, DT11 9HS, UK email: [email protected]
Three Mountains to Freedom Practice Interpretation of Paul’s Letter to the Galatians The Archbishop of Wales’s Lent Book for 2016 In seven ‘steps’, this book follows Paul’s pilgrimage across three climactive view-points: Faith, Unity and Freedom. Paul is struggling to work out the meaning of Christ for a wide variety of communities, across boundaries of culture, language and social background. As the Archbishop of Wales notes in his Foreword, the central message is that we are saved by faith in Christ alone, and we seek to make this real in our contemporary struggles with issues of race, gender, poverty and inequality. John Davies tells how Paul’s letter was specially valuable to the Christian movement in South Africa during the years of apartheid. He also finds significant connections between Paul’s situation and that of the Christian movement in Wales. In fact the message is for many different communities in today’s world. The book is equipped with questions and devotional suggestions, for use as a 5-part or 7-part course – either for Lent or for more general service in individual or group study. I am delighted to commend this as my Lent Book for 2016, knowing full well that it will repay pondering at any time. – Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales Bishop John Davies makes Paul’s letter to the Galatians immensely accessible, unfolding meaty theology and New Testament scholarship with the lightest of touches, seasoned by anecdotes from his courageous ministry in apartheid South Africa… The book is far wider than its Welsh base, and positively teems with scathing one-liners… – Bishop David Wilbourne, Church Times, January 15, 2016. John Dudley Davies, formerly Bishop of Shrewsbury, is Honorary Assistant Bishop of St. Asaph, Church in Wales. PRACTICE INTERPRETATION SERIES, 5 ISBN 9781905679355 pbk 104 pp. £15.95. Deep discount available on bulk orders.
Deo Publishing, Two Gates, Blandford Forum, DT11 9HS, UK email: [email protected]
