The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still PlacesWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2006 M06 9 - 178 páginas For millennia humans knew the stars as well as we know our own backyards. Yet today many if not most of us have lost vital connections with our natural world, and so have in many ways lost our sense of wonder. In the thoughtful, genre-bending nonfiction tradition of Wendell Berry and Walker Percy, Dale Allison explores the loss of wonder in Western society. Mining insights from sources as diverse as ancient creation myths and contemporary children's books, he highlights our ongoing disconnect from the cosmos, tracing its undeniable spiritual and philosophical impact. The Luminous Dusk is an elegant, lyrical call to seek the stillness of God in our clamorous world. |
Contenido
STILLNESS | 25 |
Mute Angels | 27 |
The Luminous Dusk | 47 |
The Ascetic Imagination | 67 |
WORD | 69 |
The Fate of the Book | 93 |
Saints and Heroes | 113 |
PRAYER | 115 |
Physical Prayer | 139 |
Hitting a Home Run | 155 |
From Statistics to Silence | 163 |
Términos y frases comunes
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