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The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
Belden C. Lane
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Description for The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
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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 the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There ... Read more
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 the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
294
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195315851
SKU
V9780195315851
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Ref
99-37
About Belden C. Lane
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.
Reviews for The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
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.
Catherine Hezser, Culture and Religion
Catherine Hezser, Culture and Religion