In Search of the Lost
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.41 (877 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1853117803 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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RICHARD CARTER was until 2005 Chaplain to the Melanesian Brotherhood. . He is now a priest at St Martin in the Fields, London
A profoundly good book F. Logue The author was the chaplain to the Anglican order of monks, the Melanesian Brotherhood, during a recent time of conflict and martyrdom. In his account of those years in the late 1990s and earliest years of the 2000s, Carter brings his considerable skills of observation and writing to the task of telling a story of death and resurrection--the loss of seven brothers and the peace their deaths brought to the Solomon Islands.The Archbis. benjamin said The Blood of the Martyrs is Seed. In "The Blood of the Martyrs is Seed" according to benjamin. In 200The Blood of the Martyrs is Seed In 2003, while the Anglican world was preparing the put itself on the brink of total madness over the issue of homosexuality, civil war (due to ethnic strife) was ravaging Solomon Islands, a small group of islands in the South Pacific that is just east of Indonesia. Richard Anthony Carter's beautiful book In Search of the Lost: The death and life of seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood, tells the story of how the Melanesi. , while the Anglican world was preparing the put itself on the brink of total madness over the issue of homosexuality, civil war (due to ethnic strife) was ravaging Solomon Islands, a small group of islands in the South Pacific that is just east of Indonesia. Richard Anthony Carter's beautiful book In Search of the Lost: The death and life of seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood, tells the story of how the Melanesi. 00The Blood of the Martyrs is Seed In 2003, while the Anglican world was preparing the put itself on the brink of total madness over the issue of homosexuality, civil war (due to ethnic strife) was ravaging Solomon Islands, a small group of islands in the South Pacific that is just east of Indonesia. Richard Anthony Carter's beautiful book In Search of the Lost: The death and life of seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood, tells the story of how the Melanesi. , while the Anglican world was preparing the put itself on the brink of total madness over the issue of homosexuality, civil war (due to ethnic strife) was ravaging Solomon Islands, a small group of islands in the South Pacific that is just east of Indonesia. Richard Anthony Carter's beautiful book In Search of the Lost: The death and life of seven peacemakers of the Melanesian Brotherhood, tells the story of how the Melanesi. "Informed passion born of hard earned experience" according to Stephen Williams. I'm not one for effusive superlatives but I was blown away by this book.Richard has a great gift for writing and this combined with an informed passion born of hard earned experience and wholesale commitment makes for a most powerful book. Richard is/was in a unique position to write such a book and he has delivered on the opportunity only he could have availed himself of.The book comes across as being very honest and appropriately
Rowan Williams writes a preface.. It tells the harrowing story of the loss of seven good, young and holy lives and the aftermath of those deaths. They had been taken hostage five months earlier. On August 8th, seven members of The Melanesian Brotherhood, an Anglican order of Christian brothers living a simple and prayerful life and known for their peace work throughout the South Pacific and beyond, were brutally murdered as a result of ethnic conflict in the Solomon Islands. It tells the story of individuals and a community trying to make sense of faith in the face of fierce conflict and tragedy. It is thus a story for everyman. The Melanesian Brotherhood is the largest Anglican religious community in the world with over 300 brothers and more than 300 novices and has received a United Nations award for its peace work. From 1990-2005, Richard Carter, a British priest, was tutor, chaplain to the Melanesian Brotherhood, eventually becoming a brother himself. It recounts the challenge of living out the Christian faith when confronted by great fear and loss. This extraordinary, powerful and moving book is based on his diaries from that agonizing time for the Community. In 2003, a story shook the Anglican world in general and Anglican mona
Carter documents the colliding violence and beauty of his island world with disarming honesty and grace. With In Search of the Lost, Richard Carter bears witness to a nation's descent into chaos and violence, but he also charts its salvation through the sacrifices of a heroic community of Christian monks. This book will make you weep and laugh, and strengthen your faith.' (Timothy Radcliffe OP)'This moving and powerful account documents the challenge of how to make sense of and live out the Christian faith when there is conflict, fear, traum