A Practical Christianity: Working on Transforming Our Lives

by Jane Shaw

This book helps us to imagine how Christian practice can transform our lives and the world around us, and how we may come to understand more fully the central beliefs of Christianity. This draws us into Christian community - not the desire to become a body of like-minded people, but to become a group of diverse women and men who care about transforming themselves and the world by love. Areas covered include forgiving and being forgiven, how we are saved, making moral choices about our lives, and models of the church's relation to the changing world. It is all illustrated with pictures and poems and references to recent films; and at the end of each chapter there are questions for discussion or reflection.

128 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2012

About the author

The Very Rev. Dr. Jane Shaw was installed as the eighth Dean of Grace Cathedral on November 6, 2010. She is responsible for the overall vision and mission of the Cathedral, overseeing the spiritual life of the Cathedral and giving leadership to the Cathedral community. She runs the Cathedral in collaboration with the Chapter (the Senior Management Team) and Trustees (the Cathedral Board).

Dr. Shaw joined Grace Cathedral from the University of Oxford where she was Dean of Divinity and Fellow of New College, Oxford, and taught history and theology at the university for sixteen years. She is also Canon Theologian of Salisbury Cathedral and an honorary canon of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and has served as Theological Consultant to the Church of England House of Bishops.

Dr. Shaw was educated as an undergraduate at Oxford, has an M.Div. from Harvard and a Ph.D. in History from UC Berkeley, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by Episcopal Divinity School. She is a Fellow of the Society of St. John the Evangelist, an Anglican monastic community in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Reviews

[Luan Topham-Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a gift when I was confirmed as an adult.

"From dust you have come and to dust you shall return", does this comfort or scare me, I'm not sure but I intend to read as many books, make as many memories, love the people in my life and try to live a good and happy life before I return to dust.

A very well written, thought provoking book.