Thoreau's God
Autor Richard Higginsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 noi 2024
Henry David Thoreau’s spiritual life is a riddle. Thoreau’s passionate critique of formal religion is matched only by his rapturous descriptions of encounters with the divine in nature. He fled the church only to pursue a deeper communion with a presence he felt at the heart of the universe. He called this illimitable presence many names, but he often called it God.
In Thoreau’s God, Richard Higgins invites seekers—religious or otherwise—to walk with the great Transcendentalist through a series of meditations on his spiritual life. Thoreau offers us no creed, but his writings encourage reflection on how to live, what to notice, and what to love. Though his quest was deeply personal, Thoreau devoted his life to communicating his experience of an infinite, wild, life-giving God. By recovering this vital thread in Thoreau’s life and work, Thoreau’s God opens the door to a new understanding of an original voice in American religion that speaks to spiritual seekers today.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226827308
ISBN-10: 0226827305
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226827305
Pagini: 224
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Richard Higgins is a former staff writer at the Boston Globe and the author or editor of four books, including Thoreau and the Language of Trees. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Christian Century, and American Scholar.
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“[Readers] will come away with a nuanced understanding of Thoreau’s religious thought, thanks to the author’s fine-grained and surprisingly poetic analysis. It’s a worthy reconsideration of an important American philosopher.”
"Thoreau’s God is an invitation to join hands with the transcendentalist, explore nature, find out who or what God is to you, and develop (or refine) your personal spiritual practices to honor that divine mystery."
"[Higgins] takes on the task of perusing through the great timberland of Thoreau’s writing, less to make the case for a definitive angle of identity but to fashion compelling Thoreauvian perspectives, even meditations, on the question.”
“Thoreau’s God is the most subtle and probing assessment yet of the many senses in which this emphatic but elusive thinker must be understood as a deeply religious person.”
“Thoreau was a practical man, but he was also in some sense a mystic—no one has ever been more open to the world around him. This fascinating book tries to understand Thoreau’s sense of the divine, which in some ways very much prefigures the unorthodox syncretism of our day.”
“If you have ever felt lost in this world of fractured faith, then pick up this book and let Higgins take you on a walk with one of America’s most profound and thoughtful religious writers: Henry David Thoreau. It won’t be an easy path, for Thoreau’s God lives in no church but out in a world of paradoxes. And Thoreau insisted that even the best of books can only point the way, through words poetic enough to say what cannot be said: that true religion lies not in what you profess, but in how you live. Higgins shows us a mind and heart at work during a troubled time, a fellow human being knocking at the door of God and hearing an answer that guided him for life.”