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Play the Game! - Discovering the Holy Order of Exuberance (Paperback)
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Play the Game! - Discovering the Holy Order of Exuberance (Paperback)
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Loot Price R434
Discovery Miles 4 340
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Beneath America's present cultural war, is a debate about the
nature of conflict and competition. This book will be read by a
cross section of people who would normally have nothing in common:
atheists/agnostics versus religious, progressives versus
conservatives, socialists versus capitalists. Most people have
never read the Bible as a primary resource with as fresh eyes as
has Dr. Barr. Most of the debates about the Bible, religion,
politics, psychology, and sexuality are so typical and routine that
they produce much smoke and heat, but little light and compassion.
Our competition is our greatest teacher. Play the Game Is a
paraphrase of Jesus' first sermon: "Repent and believe the Good
News" Mk 1:15 In this personal, original, and idiosyncratic
testimony and study, Game replaces the idea of God, and to play
replaces the action to know. Our central thought is that our
species should be called homo ludens, man the player, rather than
homo sapiens, man the knower, because man hides what he knows from
God, from his neighbor, and from himself, but meets what he hides
in the Game through his enemy and his competition. The simple
premise of the book is that there is a holy order of exuberance,
and five approaches of play towards conflict and competition that
begin in utter indifference to utter exuberance, from the
Philosopher to the Overcomer. Without appreciating what all five
players see in the Game, we are always partially blind, even though
the Overcomer can understand the Philosopher, but not the other way
around.
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