The solace of fierce landscapes: exploring desert and mountain spirituality
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1. Verfasser: Lane, Belden C. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2007
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Beschreibung:Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-274) and index
Connecting spirituality and the environment -- - Part I. Purgation - Emptiness in a geography of abandonment -- - Mythic Landscape - Grace and the grotesque : reflections on a spirituality of brokenness -- - Places on the edge : wild terrain and the spiritual life -- - Mythic Landscape - Fierce back-country and the indifference of God -- - Prayer without language in the mystical : tradition Knowing God as "Inaccessible Mountain" ... "Marvelous Desert" -- - Mythic Landscape - Stalking the snow leopard : a reflection on work -- - Part II. Illumination - Waiting in a silence beyond language -- - Mythic Landscape - Dragons of the ordinary : the discomfort of Common Grace -- - The Sinai image in the history of Western Monotheism -- - Mythic Landscape - Encounter at Ghost Ranch -- - Sinai and Tabor : Mountain symbolism in the Christian tradition -- - Mythic Landscape - Imaginary mountains, invisible lands -- - Part III. - Union : love as the fruit of indifference -- - Mythic Landscape - Transformation at Upper Moss Creek -- - Desert Catechesis : the landscape and theology of early Christian Monasticism -- - Mythic Landscape - Desert Terror and the playfulness of God -- - Attentiveness, indifference, and love : the countercultural spirituality of the Desert Christians -- - Mythic Landscape - Scratchings on the wall of a Desert Cell -- - Conclusion : rediscovering Christ in the Desert
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. 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 t
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