The solace of fierce landscapes : exploring desert and mountain spirituality / Belden C. Lane.
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...
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Table of Contents:
- 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.