The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 9 juin 2006 - 178 pages
For millennia humans knew the stars as well as we know our own backyards. Yet today many if not most of us have lost vital connections with our natural world, and so have in many ways lost our sense of wonder. In the thoughtful, genre-bending nonfiction tradition of Wendell Berry and Walker Percy, Dale Allison explores the loss of wonder in Western society. Mining insights from sources as diverse as ancient creation myths and contemporary children's books, he highlights our ongoing disconnect from the cosmos, tracing its undeniable spiritual and philosophical impact. The Luminous Dusk is an elegant, lyrical call to seek the stillness of God in our clamorous world.
 

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STILLNESS
25
Mute Angels
27
The Luminous Dusk
47
The Ascetic Imagination
67
WORD
69
The Fate of the Book
93
Saints and Heroes
113
PRAYER
115
Physical Prayer
139
Hitting a Home Run
155
From Statistics to Silence
163
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À propos de l'auteur (2006)

Dale C. Allison Jr. is the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary. His numerous books include Night Comes: Death, Imagination, and the Last Things and The Luminous Dusk: Finding God in the Deep, Still Places.

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