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The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality
- Title
- The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
- Author
- Lane, Belden C., 1943-
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book/Text | Use in library | BV4501.2 .L31834 1998 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 282 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "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."--Cover.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-274) and index.
- Contents
- Connecting spirituality and the environment -- Part I: Purgation: emptiness in a geography of abandonment -- Places on the edge: wild terrain and the spiritual life -- Prayer without language in the mystical tradition: knowing God as "inaccessible mountain"-"marvelous desert" -- Part II: Illumination: waiting in a silence beyond language -- The Sinai image in the history of western monotheism -- Sinai and Tabor: mountain symbolism in the Christian tradition -- Part III: Union: love as the fruit of indifference -- Desert catechesis: the landscape and theology of early Christian monasticism -- Attentiveness, indifference, and love: the countercultural spirituality of the desert Christians -- Conclusion: rediscovering Christ in the desert.
- ISBN
- 0195116828
- 9780195116823
- LCCN
- 98010842
- OCLC
- ocm38206964
- 38206964
- SCSB-365012
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library