Solace of Fierce Landscapes - Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

Zusatztext This is a very unusual book which defies scholarly criticism and categorization...the combination of scholarly discourse and personal musings and recollections opens up new perspectives of understanding for both the scholarly and lay reader. Informationen zum Autor Belden C. Lane is Professor of Theological Studies and American Studies, St. Louis University and the author of Landscapes of the Sacred: Geography and Narrative in American Spirituality. He lives in St. Louis. Klappentext Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian "via negativa"--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the the harsher, more profound truths can wilderness can teach. Photos. Zusammenfassung Explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. This book shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego.

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• Authors: Lane, Belden C Lane, Belden C. Lane, Belden C. (Professor of Theological Studies Lane, Belden C. (Professor of Theological Studies and American Studies Lane
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2007
• EAN: 9780195315851
• ISBN: 978-0-19-531585-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, RELIGION / Spirituality, Mountains, RELIGION / Christianity / General, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Mountains, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Deserts, Christianity, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Arid zones, deserts, Mountains and uplands