LEADER 02715nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910461356003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-12123-9 010 $a9786613121233 010 $a0-19-976042-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000093536 035 $a(EBL)716685 035 $a(OCoLC)730941195 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000525757 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12177053 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525757 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10520022 035 $a(PQKB)11077886 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC716685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL716685 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10472275 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL312123 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000093536 100 $a19980112d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe solace of fierce landscapes$b[electronic resource] $eexploring desert and mountain spirituality /$fBelden C. Lane 210 $aNew York $cOxford University Press$d1998 215 $a1 online resource (295 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-531585-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 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. 330 $aIn 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 606 $aSpiritual life$xChristianity 606 $aWilderness (Theology) 606 $aDeserts$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aMountains$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSpiritual life$xChristianity. 615 0$aWilderness (Theology) 615 0$aDeserts$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aMountains$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a248.4 700 $aLane$b Belden C.$f1943-$0949393 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461356003321 996 $aThe solace of fierce landscapes$92267931 997 $aUNINA