Robert Gibbons

Leisure Resurrected

Church Leadership & Ministry

“In the skilled hands of Jeffrey Crittenden, leisure becomes something surprising and brilliant. It is not just free time, it is an attitude towards life, a transformational way of being, the product of thoughtful decisions about how we want to live. Most importantly, from a Christian perspective, it is a resurrection activity, centered around a meal to which all are invited by Christ and empowered by the Holy Spirit to live in true community, one with another.” ―Paul Scott Wilson, professor emeritus of homiletics, College of Victoria University, University of Toronto “In an age when we badly need to recover of a good theology of work and leisure, Jeffrey Crittenden’s Leisure Resurrected takes us back to the early centuries of Christianity to seek alternative insights and recover views from a variety of settings, particularly liturgy. This excellent book challenges us and offers ways in which we can re-examine a theology of leisure.”