Three faces of Christ.The Three Faces of Christ By Trevor Dennis SPCK SPCK Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge SPCK Service Provider Code Key Triangle, 88 pages, paper $10.95 ISBN ISBN abbr. International Standard Book Number ISBN International Standard Book Number ISBN n abbr (= International Standard Book Number) → ISBN m 0 281 05257 3 The Three Faces of Christ -- Start on the third or fourth Sunday of Advent to ponder one of these imaginative stories each week and you would complete the set around Easter. The three faces are those of the infant Jesus, the adult Christ who "went about doing good", and the Saviour suffering on our behalf. There is also the risen Christ of the garden, which becomes a new Garden of Eden Garden of Eden n. See Eden. Noun 1. Garden of Eden - a beautiful garden where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation; when they disobeyed and ate the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil they were : lost to humanity through our first disobedience Disobedience Disorder (See CONFUSION.) Achan defies God’s ban on taking booty. [O.T.: Joshua 7:1] Adam and Eve eat forbidden fruit of Tree of Knowledge. [O.T.: Genesis 3:1–7; Br. Lit. , now restored to us through the cross. The Eden theme runs through all these meditations, including one linking a re-visit to the garden with the sensuality of the Bible's Song of Songs. Charming is an inadequate word for this collection of stories, though many are that. Thought-provoking? Yes. Perhaps "haunting" describes it best. |
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