Ticket Cost: FREE!
The Cathedral of St. John
271 North Main Street, Providence RI 02906
For more information and to RSVP visit the facebook event or contact Gloria Williams at 401-274-4500 Gloria@episcopalri.org
Dr. Ellen Charry comes to us from Princeton Theological Seminary where she is a professor of Historical and Systematic Theology. She visited RI to speak to our clergy last spring and left them raving, so we’re bringing her back to talk to the laity of RI too! Ellen will be speaking to us about her new book “God and the Art of Happiness”
Book Description:
Western Christian theology is skittish about happiness. We hope for future, eternal happiness, but we avoid considering happiness in this life as if we suspect such a thing is not allowed. “God and the Art of Happiness” offers a refreshing interpretation of happiness as a way of life grounded in scripture and the incarnate Christ.
Ellen Charry here reveals how the Bible encourages the happiness and joy that accompany obedience to the Creator, enhancing both our own life and the lives of those around us. This advances the well being of creation, which, in turn, causes God to delight with, in, and for us.
With this original theory of the Christian life, this book will encourage intelligent readers to take part in truly abundant life.
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