Hinds Feet On High Places

In literature an allegory is using rhetoric to tell a story instead of plain language. This may include symbolism used to communicate a message figuratively instead of literal language. The Old Testament's creation story could be interpreted as an allegory. Adam represents man, Eve represents woman, the apple might represent temptation and weakness, and the serpent obviously represents evil.

Hannah Hurnard (1905-1990) is a twentieth century Christian author, best known for her allegory Hinds Feet on High Places.

Hurnard was born in 1905 in Colchester, England to Quaker parents. She graduated from Ridgelands Bible College of Great Britain in 1926. In 1932 she became an independent missionary, moving to Haifa, Israel. Her work in Israel lasted 50 years, although she would later maintain a home in England as well.

Hurnards early writings (especially Hinds Feet on High Places and the sequel Mountain of Spices) were embraced by the mainstream Christian community, but later on in her life she seems to have departed from orthodoxy.

Eagles' Wings to the Higher Places has been said to support non-orthodox beliefs in pantheism, universalism, and gnosticism. Unveiled Glory'' tells of how she came to believe in Universal reconciliation.Hannah Hurnard: Unveiled Glory... Click here to read the rest of the article

Perhaps the Lord will use it to speak comfort to some of his loved ones who are finding themselves forced to keep company with Sorrow and Suffering, or who walk in darkness and have no light or feel themselves tossed with tempest and not comforted.

It may help them to understand a new meaning in what is happening, for the experiences through which they are passing are all part of the wonderful process by which the Lord is making real in their lives the same experience which made David and Habak cry out exultantly, "The Lord God maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon mine High Places" (Ps. 18:33 and Hab. 3:19).