{"title":"Grace Hamman","description":"\u003cp\u003eGrace Hamman’s works invite readers into a rich exploration of Christian tradition and spirituality. Through thoughtful reflections and historical insights, her books such as \u003cem\u003eAsk of Old Paths\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJesus through Medieval Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e illuminate timeless themes within the faith, encouraging a deeper appreciation of its enduring wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrounded in religious study, Hamman’s writing offers a contemplative journey for those interested in the intersection of history, theology, and spiritual practice. Her books provide a meaningful encounter with the Christian heritage, engaging both heart and mind.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ask-of-old-paths-by-grace-hamman-9780310167204","title":"Ask of Old Paths","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraditional Christian virtues and vices like abstinence, gluttony, and sloth make many of us bored or uncomfortable. At their best, these words sound dead or confusing, like incomplete fossils that belong to a distant past awkwardly enshrined in a museum. At worst, they signify a prejudiced past, when these words were wielded like weapons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYet in medieval writing, the language of the virtues and vices was powerful, lively, and delightfully weird. Patience is described as a peppercorn. Unicorns preach chastity. Knightly virtues fend off devious vices by throwing roses at them. In medieval books, words like avarice and meekness meant different things and carried different weight than they do today. Great medieval preachers and poets taught the virtues as crucial to what it meant to live a life of holiness, right alongside the Lord's Prayer and the Creed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAsk of Old Paths\u003c\/em\u003e by Grace Hamman meditates upon those strange and wonderful word-pictures and explanations of virtues and vices found in medieval traditions of poetry, sermons, and treatises long confined to dusty corners of the library. It focuses on the ancient tradition of virtue language called the Seven Capital Virtue Remedies: pride and humility, envy and love, wrath and meekness, avarice and mercy, sloth and fortitude, gluttony and abstinence, lust and chastity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn accessible and thoughtful chapters, scholar and writer Grace Hamman shows how learning about these pairs of medieval virtues and vices can help us reevaluate our own washed-out and insipid moral vocabulary in modernity. Our imaginations for the good life are expanded; our longing for sanctification sharpens. Old ideas can give us new fire in our practice of the virtue—and in that practice, we imitate Jesus and become more human.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46812908519660,"sku":"9780310167204","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11326623482298.jpg?v=1757676770"},{"product_id":"jesus-through-medieval-eyes-by-grace-hamman-9780310169123","title":"Jesus through Medieval Eyes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJesus through Medieval Eyes\u003c\/em\u003e will take you on an exploration of medieval representations of Jesus in theology and literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWho is Jesus? What is he like? And who am I, encountering Jesus? These questions were just as important to Christians in the Middle Ages as they are today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd yet—as C.S. Lewis noted—the modern church tends to forget that people of different cultures and times also thought carefully about who Jesus was; and sometimes their ideas and emphases were different.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMedievalist scholar Grace Hamman believes that we can deepen our understanding and adoration of Christ by looking to the Christians of the Middle Ages. Medieval Europeans were also suffering through pandemics, dealing with political and ecclesial corruption and instability, and reckoning with gender, money, and power. But their concerns and imaginations are unlike ours. Their ideas, narratives, and art about Jesus open up paradoxically fresh and ancient ways to approach and adore Christ—and reveal where our own cultural ideals about the Messiah fall short.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMedieval representations of Jesus span from the familiar—like Jesus as the Judge at the End of Days, or Jesus as the Lover of the Song of Songs—to the more unusual, like Jesus as Our Mother. Through the words of medieval people like Julian of Norwich, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Margery Kempe, and St. Thomas Aquinas, we meet these faces of Jesus and find renewed ways to love the Saviour, in the words of St. Augustine, that \"beauty so ancient and so new.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596705317100,"sku":"9780310169123","price":62.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780310169123-jesus-through-medieval-eyes.jpg?v=1777937512"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/grace-hamman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}