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by You Bin (Author), Johan Ferreira (Translator), David F. Ford (Foreword by)
This series of meditations on the birth of Christ encourages the reader to relive the miracle of Christmas. Through reflecting on Scripture, Church tradition, and Chinese culture the reader may experience afresh the Word becoming flesh. The reader travels to ancient Bethlehem in a spiritual sense to contemplate the meaning of the incarnation for the past, the future, and the present. As the reader recalls the first coming of Christ into history, he or she may also direct the heart to the future, looking forward to the second coming of Christ at the end of the age, and simultaneously experience his transforming presence in the present. The reader could develop a spiritual formation in the Advent season with the inspirations from the Chinese cultural and wisdom resources.
Author Biography
You Bin 游斌 is Professor of Religions at Minzu University of China (Beijing, China),
where he directs the Academy of Religions and leads research projects on Comparative Scripture and Interreligious Dialogue. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Comparative Scripture and the author of Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (2007), Social Memory and Ethnic Construction of Ancient Israel (2011), Chinese Catechism on Apostles' Creed, Lord's Prayer, and Ten Commandments (2018-2020), Religions of Beijing (2020).
