02776nam 2200637 a 450 991097378280332120240516073946.01-283-12123-997866131212330-19-976042-X(CKB)2670000000093536(EBL)716685(OCoLC)730941195(SSID)ssj0000525757(PQKBManifestationID)12177053(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525757(PQKBWorkID)10520022(PQKB)11077886(Au-PeEL)EBL716685(CaPaEBR)ebr10472275(CaONFJC)MIL312123(OCoLC)38206964(FINmELB)ELB163807(MiAaPQ)EBC716685(EXLCZ)99267000000009353619980112d1998 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe solace of fierce landscapes exploring desert and mountain spirituality /Belden C. LaneNew York Oxford University Press1998New York :Oxford University Press,1998.1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) illustrations0-19-531585-5 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 aspectsChristianitySpiritual lifeChristianity.Wilderness (Theology)DesertsReligious aspectsChristianity.MountainsReligious aspectsChristianity.248.4Lane Belden C.1943-1637902MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910973782803321The solace of fierce landscapes4446219UNINA