Lane Belden C. (Professor Emeritus Theological Studies Professor Emeritus Theological Studies St. Louis University)
Lane Belden C. (Professor Emeritus Theological Studies Professor Emeritus Theological Studies St. Louis University) - Backpacking With The Saints Wilderness Hiking As Spiritual Practice - Hardcover
Lane Belden C. (Professor Emeritus Theological Studies Professor Emeritus Theological Studies St. Louis University) - Backpacking With The Saints Wilderness Hiking As Spiritual Practice - Hardcover
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Description: Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions he has only such teachers as Rumi John of the Cross Hildegard of Bingen Dag Hammarskj ld and Thomas Merton and as he walks he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters - - Bell Mountain Wilderness withs ren Kierkegaard Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh - - demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape and how the saints writings reveal the divine in nature. The discipline of backpacking Lane shows is a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Just as the trail offered revelations to the early Desert Christians backpacking hones crucial spiritual skills: paying attention traveling light practicing silence and exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide range of spiritual writings - - Celtic Catholic Protestant Buddhist Hindu and Sufi Muslim - - but with the fascination of other lovers of the backcountry from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down - to - earth narrative backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. Adoration Lane suggests is the most appropriate human response to what we cannot explain but have nonetheless learned to love. Backpacking with the Saints is an enchanting exploration of how solitude simplicity and mindfulness are illuminated and encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering and of how the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing - - an ecology of the soul.
Title: Backpacking With The Saints Wilderness Hiking As Spiritual Practice
Author(s): Lane Belden C. (Professor Emeritus Theological Studies Professor Emeritus Theological Studies St. Louis University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199927814
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 12/1/2014
Category: Spirituality & Religious Experience
Description: Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions he has only such teachers as Rumi John of the Cross Hildegard of Bingen Dag Hammarskj ld and Thomas Merton and as he walks he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters - - Bell Mountain Wilderness withs ren Kierkegaard Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh - - demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape and how the saints writings reveal the divine in nature. The discipline of backpacking Lane shows is a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Just as the trail offered revelations to the early Desert Christians backpacking hones crucial spiritual skills: paying attention traveling light practicing silence and exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide range of spiritual writings - - Celtic Catholic Protestant Buddhist Hindu and Sufi Muslim - - but with the fascination of other lovers of the backcountry from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down - to - earth narrative backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. Adoration Lane suggests is the most appropriate human response to what we cannot explain but have nonetheless learned to love. Backpacking with the Saints is an enchanting exploration of how solitude simplicity and mindfulness are illuminated and encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering and of how the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing - - an ecology of the soul.
Title: Backpacking With The Saints Wilderness Hiking As Spiritual Practice
Author(s): Lane Belden C. (Professor Emeritus Theological Studies Professor Emeritus Theological Studies St. Louis University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199927814
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 12/1/2014
Category: Spirituality & Religious Experience
