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On Being Present Where You Are (Pendle Hill Pamphlets)

Douglas V. Steere

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Douglas Steere wrote that he was drawn to the subject of presence by a long-forgotten little book on Presence by Bishop Brent which he read again and again. Much as he gained from this book, he realized how much difference Martin Buber made in his thinking, for his vivid sense of meeting each other and of living dialogue carried the insights of Brent much further. Then, knowing Albert Schweitzer, with his gift of being acutely present where he was, also helped to sharpen this dimension.

But all of these sources paled for Douglas Steere before the reading and rereading of the New Testament stories of Jesus where he had burned into his mind what a man was like who was always present where he was. The greatest flashes of disclosure which we get from the Gospels seem to come to us out of the utterly fresh and unpredictable situations that rose in the course of his wandering almost as a vagrant across the land of Palestine. A woman is taken in adultery; he meets a woman at a well; a Roman centurion asks help for his servant; Martha complains in the course of preparing the meal at Bethany. The immortal words that came out of these ordinary situations of life showed a man utterly present where he was and speaking authentically to the occasion. For Douglas Steere, nothing reveals more conclusively God’s universal man than this gift of presence so powerfully disclosed. And those who have been inwardly drawn into his company and have taken his way down through the centuries have seemed to be marked by something of the same quality.

Language: English

Pages: 40

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: December 01, 2013

On Being Present Where You Are (Pendle Hill Pamphlets)

Douglas V. Steere

0/5 ( ratings)

Douglas Steere wrote that he was drawn to the subject of presence by a long-forgotten little book on Presence by Bishop Brent which he read again and again. Much as he gained from this book, he realized how much difference Martin Buber made in his thinking, for his vivid sense of meeting each other and of living dialogue carried the insights of Brent much further. Then, knowing Albert Schweitzer, with his gift of being acutely present where he was, also helped to sharpen this dimension.

But all of these sources paled for Douglas Steere before the reading and rereading of the New Testament stories of Jesus where he had burned into his mind what a man was like who was always present where he was. The greatest flashes of disclosure which we get from the Gospels seem to come to us out of the utterly fresh and unpredictable situations that rose in the course of his wandering almost as a vagrant across the land of Palestine. A woman is taken in adultery; he meets a woman at a well; a Roman centurion asks help for his servant; Martha complains in the course of preparing the meal at Bethany. The immortal words that came out of these ordinary situations of life showed a man utterly present where he was and speaking authentically to the occasion. For Douglas Steere, nothing reveals more conclusively God’s universal man than this gift of presence so powerfully disclosed. And those who have been inwardly drawn into his company and have taken his way down through the centuries have seemed to be marked by something of the same quality.

Language: English

Pages: 40

Format: Kindle Edition

Release: December 01, 2013

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