Beyond the Broken Lights: Simple Words at Sacred Edges

by Charles E. Poole

Book Overview

Taking its title from a line of a poem written by Alfred Tennyson, Beyond the Broken Lights is a thoughtful and inviting look at our questions and the need for clarity in the depths of the mystery of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157312270X
• ISBN13: 9781573122702
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Answers to Ordinary Questions

To Poole, the truth about God and life is deeper, higher and wider than all our tries at the truth can confess. When it comes to the gospel of God, it is as Tennyson penned, "Our little sytems have their day.....They are but broken lights of Thee And Thou , O Lord, art more than they." Poole gives penetrating examples of growing in grace, stressing how hard it is to embrace change. Poole asks questions we all ask privately, and gives sensible answers, or no answers---where there are none. I was not expecting to like this book. After all he is a Baptist minister. But this is ecumenical writing. I'll be interested to know if Poole is still in the Baptist Church, since he feels that women are also called to do important work in the church.