02889nam 22005654a 450 991014526870332120170810182851.01-281-31113-897866113111310-470-77649-80-470-77722-2(CKB)1000000000400722(EBL)351599(OCoLC)476172900(SSID)ssj0000240419(PQKBManifestationID)11174154(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000240419(PQKBWorkID)10252200(PQKB)10935188(MiAaPQ)EBC351599(EXLCZ)99100000000040072220030828d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe sacred desert[electronic resource] religion, literature, art, and culture /David JasperMalden, MA Blackwell Pub.20041 online resource (234 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4051-1974-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.Introduction: meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger -- The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert, I : travellers and poets -- The literature of the desert, II : novelists -- Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion: meeting point.The Sacred Desert is a reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.:.; An original reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.; Discusses figures as diverse as Jesus, the early Christian Desert Fathers, T.E. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wim Wenders and Jim Crace.; Makes connections across millennia of desert literature.; Deepens the reader's understanding of the desert as a real place, as an interior space, and as a textual site,.; Concludes with comments on the recent conflicts in Iraq.; Written in a rSpiritual lifeChristianityDesertsReligious aspectsChristianityElectronic books.Spiritual lifeChristianity.DesertsReligious aspectsChristianity.230248Jasper David608497MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910145268703321The sacred desert2156278UNINA