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UNINA9910789433003321 |
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Autore |
Lane Belden C. <1943-> |
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Titolo |
The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / / Belden C. Lane |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 1998 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-12123-9 |
9786613121233 |
0-19-976042-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Spiritual life - Christianity |
Wilderness (Theology) |
Deserts - Religious aspects - Christianity |
Mountains - Religious aspects - Christianity |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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