道耕出版社<圣诞默想>著作简介:

圣诞节是一个欢庆的日子，是基督教最隆重的节期之一。教会有一个悠久的传统，就是从圣诞节前的第四个主日开始做好预备，将心灵调整到与圣诞相称的状态中，这一段时期就被称为“将临期”。将临期的主题就是欢迎耶稣的来临，它让我们在庆祝耶稣的第一次来临时，也期盼着耶稣的第二次来临。庆祝圣诞，就是提醒我们以喜乐、盼望、警醒、悔改的心，迎接基督这位宇宙的生生之神。基督的圣诞是历史性的，他诞生在二千多年前的伯利恒。基督的圣诞又是永恒的，贯穿在上帝对世界的整个拯救计划之中。他不断地呼出那赐生命的圣灵，在我们里面诞生神性的生命。生生不息的圣灵，使基督永不止息地诞生在每一个愿意追随他的人心中。本书采用与将临期相应的日期，以21篇默想，运用深厚的中华文化资源，来默想基督在历史中的诞生、在自然中的诞生、在我们里面的诞生，使读者能一步一步地调整心灵，来迎接耶稣这位生生之神。并且，通过我们的庆祝，使他的生命转化为我们的生命。

作者简介：

游斌博士，中央民族大学基督教研究教授、圣经学者，对基督教圣经、教义、礼仪等有精深研究。数十年来致力于基督教与中华文化的对话，致力于建设有中华风格的基督教神学。曾出版10余本研究中华圣经学、基督教历史与神学的著作。他曾是美国富勒神学院客座教授，曾入选哈佛燕京学者、富布赖特学者等。

About the Author:

Dr. YOU Bin is a Professor of Christianity at Minzu University of China, where he directs the Academy of Religions, and leading a research project of Chinese Christian Theology, Liturgy and Biblical Studies. He is active in involving the intercultural dialogues between different Christianity and Chinese cultures. He authored numerous books on Christian theology, the Old Testament, and Chinese Christian Studies etc. He was Harvard-Yenching scholar 2005-2006, Fulbright Scholar at Fuller, 2015-2016, and selected as Young Changjiang Scholar in China.

Christmas is the most joyful season for Christians in celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Church developed a tradition that to welcome the birth of Jesus with the season of Advent starting from the fourth Sunday before the Christmas. Advent is to remind Christians of hoping the second coming of Jesus in celebrating His first coming in history. To welcome Jesus, the Lord of eternal life in the universe, in the Advent is to form within ourselves a spirituality of joy, hope, awakening and repentance. He is an eternally birthing God in breathing his life-giving Spirit into us. Meditations on the Birthing of Christ, authored by Professor You Bin, drawing its deep inspiration from the Chinese spiritual and philosophical resources, includes twenty-one essays to meditate the birth of Christ in history, nature and ourselves. It would encourage the readers to welcome the birth of Christ in the whole Advent season, one essay per day, with a fitting heart, and to transform Christ’s life into our lives in the meditative celebration.