Love Unknown: The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2012

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Ruth Burrows is the author of numerous best-selling books, including Essence of Prayer. In this book, she distills the wisdom and experience gained from her life as a Carmelite nun into a vigorous, compelling presentation of what it means to be a Christian. Ruth Burrows believes that many people, even regular churchgoers, miss the true meaning and joy of Christianity. God longs for us to know him as our Saviour, so that he can bring us to share in his own Trinitarian life and love. Burrows traces how God reveals himself to us through our personal lives, particularly our experiences of weakness and failure; through history and the natural world; through the scriptures; and above all, through his beloved Son Jesus. Encountering the living God revealed in Jesus Christ challenges us to face our own truth, and sets us free to receive the boundless love, the joy, fulfilment, and holiness, for which we were made.

Ruth Burrows is a Carmelite Nun from Quidenham in Norfolk, UK. She is the author of a number of bestselling books including Guidelines for Mystical Prayer and Essence of Prayer.

Featured in 'the living spirit' section of The Tablet. In this short book, [Ruth Burrows] attempts to distil the wisdom and experiences gained from her life as a Carmelite nun into a vigorous and compelling presentation of what it means to be Christian. -- The Irish Catholic Reviewed in the Church of Ireland Gazette. Discussed by Rowan Williams in The Catholic Herald. Now that the majority of most congregations are elderly and reluctant to go out at night, it is a good idea to recommend an inexpensive book as a Lenten substitute. It should be primarily intended for committed Christians to use during Lent for reflection in preparation for their celebration of the climax of revelation, the death and resurrection of our Saviour. Love Unknown satisfies these requirements supremely well. -- New Directions Interview with author Ruth Burrows in The Tablet. Nowhere is the sense that the search for the things of God can be both the most satisfying and the most difficult of tasks more keenly and intelligently expressed than in the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book, Love Unknown... A lifetime of prayer and study is distilled here. -- Featured in a Lent Books round-up in The Tablet Selected in 'the pick of the new books in paperback' feature in the Church of England Newspaper. Interview with author Ruth Burrows featured in The Times. Review by Christopher Howse taken from The Tablet featured in The World Community for Christian Meditation in the UK. ... Ruth Burrows, a Carmelite nun and renowned spiritual writer, offers a most profound set of insights on the joys and challenges of the Christian life... Each [chapter] is a gem in its own right, and this would be an ideal book for individuals to read steadily through Lent... -- The Church Times Featured at number 1 in the Church Times' top ten religious books.