The god of wild places: rediscovering the divine in the untamed outdoors
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"I have read a lot of books in my life, but never one like this... this captivating memoir will take you places you might never have gone on your own: into the elemental mysteries of life, death, creatureliness, and divinity with someone who has turned from the orderliness of religion to find salvation in the God of the Wild. I'm glad I went." —Barbara Brown Taylor, New York Times bestselling author of Leaving Church and Learning to Walk in the Dark
A pastor walks out of the church and into the woods, in pursuit of the God he's lost.
Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones, Ph.D., had his crisis of faith, brought on by personal trauma and broken relationships, he sought solace in the outdoors - paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer.
When he walked out of the church and into the woods, he left the orderly pews and numbered hymns for chaotic spaces and untamed wilderness. And he re-discovered God — a God who brings peace in the midst of storms, a God who lives in the community of our fellow creatures, a God who's acquainted with death. This is the God of wild places.
In The God of Wild Places, Tony mines his own experiences, recent research in evolutionary psychology, and ancient wisdom from various spiritual and philosophical traditions to fashion lessons about solitude, the predator-prey relationship, the importance of place, risk, failure, and death, and the chaotic presence of God.
Tony's guidance in The God of Wild Places promises to introduce a generation of Americans to the transcendence available only in untamed spaces; his writing draws on wisdom from Christianity to Buddhism, Kant to Cioran, Jim Harrison to Annie Dillard. This is a journey of loss and discovery through forests and fields, lakes and streams, from knowing to unknowing, from finding to losing — from life to death, and then back to life.
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Grouped Work ID | 23878b7a-a469-a326-f865-0029961f4575 |
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Grouping Title | god of wild places rediscovering the divine in the untamed outdoors |
Grouping Author | tony jones |
Grouping Category | book |
Grouping Language | English (eng) |
Last Grouping Update | 2024-06-27 09:52:05AM |
Last Indexed | 2024-07-03 05:47:40AM |
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Iron River Adult Nonfiction
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Iron River Library
Iron River Library
Jones, Tony, -- 1968- -- Religion
Nature -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Spiritual life -- Christianity
Wilderness (Theology)
Faith
Jones, Tony
Nature
Religion
Religious aspects
Spiritual life
Wilderness (Theology)
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