Solace of Fierce Landscapes Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

Name: Solace of Fierce Landscapes Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality
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ISBN: 9780195315851

ISBN-10: 0195315855

ISBN-13: 9780195315851

Edition: 2007

Authors: Belden C. Lane

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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 the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace…

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List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/26/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English