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George Herbert - The Country Parson and the Temple (Paperback)
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"the publishers should be congratulated for their newest...event.
By making sixty of the greatest spiritual classics easily available
in their new series, they have done much to further the spiritual
renewal of the Church." The Christian World GEORGE HERBERT-THE
COUNTRY PARSON, THE TEMPLE edited, with an introduction and
foreword by John N. Wall, Jr. preface by A.M. Allchin The Sun
arising in the East, Though he give light, and th' East perfume; If
they should offer to contest With thy arising, they presume. George
Herbert (1593-1633) George Herbert (1593-1633) lived in England
during the tempestuous reigns of James I and Charles I that saw the
nation racked by conflict among Catholics, Hugh Churchmen, and
Puritans. A member of a politically-active family, Herbert rejected
a promising career as a member of Parliament for the simple life of
a country parson. While busily involved in his pastoral duties he
produced works of poetry and prose that have earned him a
long-established place in English literary history. Collected here
are two works originally published after Herbert's death at
Bemerton in 1633: The Country Parson, a prose treatise on the
duties, joys, and hardships of a pastor's life; and The Temple, a
collection of poems. In them the literary genius of this humble
priest whose spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and
Catholic piety is revealed. Herbert's appeal for today is summed up
by A.M. Allchin in his preface to this volume: "Without glossing
over the fragility and brokenness of man's experience of life in
time, he managed to reaffirm the great unities of Christian faith
and prayer. These are the unities which draw together the separated
strands in the Christian heritage, which draw together past and
present in a living an creative appropriation of tradition."
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