The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
2007
BV4501.3 .L35 2007eb
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Title
The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
Author
ISBN
9780199760428 (electronic bk.)
019976042X (electronic bk.)
9780195315851
0195315855
019976042X (electronic bk.)
9780195315851
0195315855
Imprint
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 282 pages) : illustrations
Call Number
BV4501.3 .L35 2007eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)730941195
Summary
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 t.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-274) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Connecting spirituality and the environment
Part I. Purgation. Emptiness in a geography of abandonment
Mythic Landscape. Grace and the grotesque : reflections on a spirituality of brokenness
Places on the edge : wild terrain and the spiritual life
Mythic Landscape. Fierce back-country and the indifference of God
Prayer without language in the mystical : tradition Knowing God as "Inaccessible Mountain" ... "Marvelous Desert"
Mythic Landscape. Stalking the snow leopard : a reflection on work
Part II. Illumination. Waiting in a silence beyond language
Mythic Landscape. Dragons of the ordinary : the discomfort of Common Grace
The Sinai image in the history of Western Monotheism
Mythic Landscape. Encounter at Ghost Ranch
Sinai and Tabor : Mountain symbolism in the Christian tradition
Mythic Landscape. Imaginary mountains, invisible lands
Part III. Union : love as the fruit of indifference
Mythic Landscape. Transformation at Upper Moss Creek
Desert Catechesis : the landscape and theology of early Christian Monasticism
Mythic Landscape. Desert Terror and the playfulness of God
Attentiveness, indifference, and love : the countercultural spirituality of the Desert Christians
Mythic Landscape. Scratchings on the wall of a Desert Cell
Conclusion : rediscovering Christ in the Desert.
Part I. Purgation. Emptiness in a geography of abandonment
Mythic Landscape. Grace and the grotesque : reflections on a spirituality of brokenness
Places on the edge : wild terrain and the spiritual life
Mythic Landscape. Fierce back-country and the indifference of God
Prayer without language in the mystical : tradition Knowing God as "Inaccessible Mountain" ... "Marvelous Desert"
Mythic Landscape. Stalking the snow leopard : a reflection on work
Part II. Illumination. Waiting in a silence beyond language
Mythic Landscape. Dragons of the ordinary : the discomfort of Common Grace
The Sinai image in the history of Western Monotheism
Mythic Landscape. Encounter at Ghost Ranch
Sinai and Tabor : Mountain symbolism in the Christian tradition
Mythic Landscape. Imaginary mountains, invisible lands
Part III. Union : love as the fruit of indifference
Mythic Landscape. Transformation at Upper Moss Creek
Desert Catechesis : the landscape and theology of early Christian Monasticism
Mythic Landscape. Desert Terror and the playfulness of God
Attentiveness, indifference, and love : the countercultural spirituality of the Desert Christians
Mythic Landscape. Scratchings on the wall of a Desert Cell
Conclusion : rediscovering Christ in the Desert.
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Print version: Lane, Belden C., 1943- Solace of fierce landscapes. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
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