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The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lane, Belden C., 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lane, Belden C., 1943-.
- Lane, Belden C.
- Spiritual life--Christianity.
- Spiritual life.
- Wilderness (Theology).
- Deserts--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Deserts.
- Mountains--Religious aspects--Christianity.
- Mountains.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes 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. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for t
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Purgation : emptiness in a geography of abandonment
- pt. 2. Illumination : waiting in a silence beyond language
- pt. 3. Union : love as the fruit of indifference.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-12123-9
- 9786613121233
- 0-19-976042-X
- OCLC:
- 730941195
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