Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World: A Little Direction - Softcover

Roulet, Daniel De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1587431203 ISBN 13: 9781587431203

Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group, 2007

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The world fell apart for author Daniel de Roulet the moment his son was diagnosed with autism. In "Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World", de Roulet takes a closer look at those devastating moments in everyone's lives and the journey that follows. What do we do when our sense of God's plan for our lives crumbles around us? How do we find our plots in a seemingly plotless world? For answers, de Roulet looks to stories - those of our own culture and the Bible. Along the way, de Roulet encourages readers to be authentic as they tell their own stories and leaves them with hope that God reveals himself through our messy lives.

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Daniel de Roulet (PhD, University of California, Irvine) is professor of English and assistant provost of learning and assessment at Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California. He is the author of Conversing with Culture: Christian Literature at the Beginning of the 21st Century and has written articles for The Covenant Companion.

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How do we find meaning when our sense of God's plan for our lives falls apart? Daniel de Roulet found himself asking that question nine years ago when his son was diagnosed with autism.

In Finding Your Plot in a Plotless World, de Roulet takes a closer look at those moments in which we lack direction, feel disconnected, and search for answers--moments when the world seems plotless and we can't find our place. He explores the role that storytelling plays in helping us to recover God's plot for our lives. "There are times for all of us, Christian and non-Christian alike, when the world seems dark and senseless and morning seems far off, and these times are often when God's plot is the most relevant," writes de Roulet. By linking stories from the Bible with our own cultural stories--through fiction, film, poetry, and song--he walks with us on a journey toward purpose and meaning within God's story.

De Roulet's message will resonate with twenty-first-century Christians who live in a postmodern world that connects more closely with story than modernist arguments of faith. This book will help them bridge the divide many have built between spiritual and secular realms to allow biblical stories and our culture's stories to enter into dialogue with one another.

The result is a book that encourages us to be authentic as we tell our stories and leaves us with hope that God reveals himself through our messy lives.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Brazos Press, Div of Baker Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1587431203
• ISBN 13: 9781587431203
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar