02715nam 2200625 a 450 991046135600332120200520144314.01-283-12123-997866131212330-19-976042-X(CKB)2670000000093536(EBL)716685(OCoLC)730941195(SSID)ssj0000525757(PQKBManifestationID)12177053(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525757(PQKBWorkID)10520022(PQKB)11077886(MiAaPQ)EBC716685(Au-PeEL)EBL716685(CaPaEBR)ebr10472275(CaONFJC)MIL312123(EXLCZ)99267000000009353619980112d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe solace of fierce landscapes[electronic resource] exploring desert and mountain spirituality /Belden C. LaneNew York Oxford University Press19981 online resource (295 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-531585-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 tSpiritual lifeChristianityWilderness (Theology)DesertsReligious aspectsChristianityMountainsReligious aspectsChristianityElectronic books.Spiritual lifeChristianity.Wilderness (Theology)DesertsReligious aspectsChristianity.MountainsReligious aspectsChristianity.248.4Lane Belden C.1943-949393MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910461356003321The solace of fierce landscapes2267931UNINA