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A Place of Springs (Paperback)
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A Place of Springs (Paperback)
Series: Death and the Displacement of Beauty
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In this book Grace Jantzen constructs a Quaker spirituality of
beauty as a theological-philosophical response to a world
preoccupied with death and violence. Having mapped the foundations
of western cultural violence in the Greco-Roman period and the
Judea-Christian tradition in Foundations of Violence and Violence
to Eternity, she now offers her alternative vision. This vision is
an original and creative feminist reading of the Quaker tradition,
considering George Fox and the writings of Quaker women, exploring
the themes of inner light and beauty as alternatives to violence
and the obstacles to building such an alternative world. After
showing how seventeenth-century Quakers offered a different option
for modernity, she maps the philosophical and ethical implications
of engaging with the world through beauty and its transforming
power. Written for everyone interested in contemporary spirtuality,
it explains how Quaker ideas can provide a way to transform our
violent world into one that celebrates life rather than death,
peace rather than violence. This work is the second of two
posthumous publications to complete Grace M. Jantzen's Death and
the Displacement of Beauty collection, which began with Foundations
of Violence (Routledge, 2004).
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