Autumn: A Spiritual Biography of the Season
Discover how this transitional season can reveal both the abundance and the limitations of our everyday lives.
Autumn, with all its traditional images of colorful trees, frost-covered pumpkins, and piles of wood stored up against winter's cold, can be a season filled with anticipation. The harvest, the imminent onset of cold and snow, the resumption of old routines, and the beginning of the school year all require preparation and planning. If summer has been something of a pause, autumn helps us to see the passage of time more clearly.
Autumn is a season of fruition and reaping, of thanksgiving and celebration of abundance and goodness of the earth. But it is also a season that starkly and realistically encourages us to see our own limitations.
Warm and stirring pieces by E. B. White, Anne Lamott, P. D. James, Julian of Norwich, May Sarton, Kimiko Hahn, and many others in this beautiful book rejoice in autumn as a time of preparation and reflection, when the results of hard labor are ripe for harvest.
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Book details
- Author
- Susan Felch
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Nature › Seasons
Religion › Spirituality
Nature › Weather - Topics
- seasons · nature essays · spirituality · spiritual reflection · harvest · passage of time · abundance and loss
- ISBN-13
- 9781683365570 (Paperback)9781681629810 (Hardcover)
About the author
SUSAN M. FELCH is Professor Emerita of English at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan and the author or editor of more than a dozen books. Her recent books include The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion and Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers.
Felch won the Josephine A. Roberts Scholarly Edition Award for Elizabeth Tyrwhit’s Morning and Evening Prayers, and her co-edited volume Elizabeth I and Her Age won the Teaching Edition Award from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. She holds a PhD in literature from The Catholic University of America and served as director of the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship and as Executive Editor of the Independent Works of William Tyndale, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.