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Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove - An Invitation to Religious Studies (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove - An Invitation to Religious Studies (Hardcover, 3rd edition)
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The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains
intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on
our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for
ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives
and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With
this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the
Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence, and wonder
at the risks and possibilities of human freedom. This book is even
more important than it was thirty years ago. We need religion to
strike deeply into the self, away from public glare. Unless
Americans become more sophisticated about the language of the self,
inner life will shrivel. In addition, our people will continue to
be vulnerable to fundamentalist movements. Such movements take over
too many innocents. Th ey promise, and sometimes deliver, a
touching happiness. But they do so by closing the spirit in a
powerful and dangerous way. Families and schools do not provide a
large and critical vocabulary by which to express the inner
longings of the spirit. The souls of many are parched and they
gladly accept water, any water, from those who off er it. Th e
liberation of the religious spirit from trivial, closed, and
simplistic systems of thought can only be achieved through the
development of a critical language, exercises, and disciplines that
open rather than close the mind, that lead to higher viewpoints,
breakthroughs, and new syntheses, in a constant enlargement of
spirit. Novak's book leads us to that place.
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Imprint: |
Routledge
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2017 |
First published: |
2009 |
Authors: |
J. Bowyer Bell
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
235 |
Edition: |
3rd edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-138-51896-4 |
Categories: |
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Philosophy >
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LSN: |
1-138-51896-4 |
Barcode: |
9781138518964 |
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