Sylvie Vanhoozer 
The Art of Living in Season 
A Year of Reflections for Everyday Saints

‘What can I give him?’
Growing up in her native Provence, in southern France, Sylvie Vanhoozer learned about the traditional Provençal crèche. These nativity scenes were peopled by santons—’little saints’—each bringing their unique gifts to the baby Jesus. As her own life took her around the world, to England, Scotland, and the United States, she kept up the tradition of her native crèche in her own home, adding to it souvenirs from each new place where she found herself.
In The Art of Living in Season, Vanhoozer invites readers to join this communion of little saints and to follow them not only at Christmas but throughout the whole year. Each chapter introduces a new santon and opens up another aspect of our annual pilgrimage toward Christ. Structured as weekly reflections and illustrated with Vanhoozer's own botanical illustrations, this book invites us to follow Christ in our own places and seasons of life, beginning by keeping in step with the rhythms of nature and the church calendar.
The Art of Living in Season is a companion for everyday saints who wonder how they can follow Jesus—and what they can give him—wherever, whenever, and whoever they are.

Table des matières

Foreword by Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Introduction: A Seed Is Planted: A Child’s Christmas in Provence
Part One: Everyday Saints in the Special Seasons
1. Advent: The Art of Watchful Waiting
2. Christmas: The Art of Giving
3. Epiphany: The Art of Welcoming the Stranger
4. Candlemas: The Art of Remaining Alight
5. Lent: The Art of Self-Pruning
6. Easter: The Art of Rejoicing
7. Pentecost: The Art of Pouring Out Essential Oils
Part Two: Everyday Saints in Ordinary Time
8. On the Land: The Art of Growing in Place
9. At the Table: The Art of Providing Restauration
10. Round the Garden: The Art of Beautifying
11. In the Marketplace: The Art of Making a Living
12. With the Children: The Art of Seeing Afresh
13. Alongside the Elders: The Art of Passing Down Heirlooms
14. The Feast of Christ the King: The Art of Coming Home
Epilogue: Everyday Advent: The Art of Reengaging
Acknowledgments
Glossary of French Terms
Notes
Further Reading

A propos de l’auteur

Kevin J. Vanhoozer (Ph D, Cambridge University) is research professor of systematic theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois.