Wilderness in Mythology and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilderness in Mythology and Religion write by Laura Feldt. This book was released on 2012-10-01. Wilderness in Mythology and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Wilderness is one of the most abiding creations in the history of religions. It has a long and seminal history and is of contemporary relevance in wildlife preservation and climate discourses. Yet it has not previously been subject to scrutiny or theorising from a cross-cultural study of religions perspective. What are the specific relations between the world’s religions and imagined and real wilderness areas? The wilderness is often understood as a domain void of humans, opposed to civilization, but the analyses in this book complicate and question the dualism of previous theoretical grids and offer new perspectives on the interesting multiplicity of the wilderness and religion nexus. This book thus addresses the need for cross-cultural anthropological and history of religions analyses by offering in-depth case studies of the use and functions of wilderness spaces in a diverse range of contexts including, but not limited to, ancient Greece, early Christian asceticism, Old Norse religion, the shamanism-Buddhism encounter in Mongolia, contemporary paganism, and wilderness spirituality in the US. It advances research on religious spatialities, cosmologies, and ideas of wild nature and brings new understanding of the role of religion in human interaction with ‘the world’.
The Revelation in the Wilderness
The Revelation in the Wilderness - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Revelation in the Wilderness write by Gualtherus Hendrik Mees. This book was released on 1953. The Revelation in the Wilderness available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Wilderness Lost
Wilderness Lost - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilderness Lost write by David Ross Williams. This book was released on 1987. Wilderness Lost available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book establishes that there is a consistent tradition of wilderness imagery in American literature, A psychological reading of theology is applied to the writings of such authors as Thomas Hooker, Jonathan Edwards, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Dickinson.
Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought
Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought write by George H. Williams. This book was released on 2016-11-01. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Paradise or wasteland--the wilderness has always been a challenge to Westerners. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought traces the exciting theme of the quest for the wilderness--both physical and metaphysical--to create a new and important perspective for understanding Christian civilization. With a wealth of knowledge, a renowned historian presents the biblical understanding of the religious and ethical significance of the desert and how this understanding has influenced later Christian history and culture. Dr. Williams specifically applies the paradise theme to the university today and shows the continuing vitality of this ancient concept.
Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible
Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible write by Robert Miller II OFS. This book was released on 2021-09-22. Wilderness as Metaphor for God in the Hebrew Bible available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ancient Israelite authors of the Hebrew Bible were not philosophers, so what they could not say about God in logical terms, they expressed through metaphor and imagery. To present God in His most impenetrable otherness, the image they chose was the desert. The desert was Ancient Israels southern frontier, an unknown region that was always elsewhere: from that elsewhere, God has come -- God came from the South (Hab 3:3); God, when you marched from the desert (Ps 68:8); from his southland mountain slopes (Deut 33:2). Robert Miller explores this imagery, shedding light on what the biblical authors meant by associating God with deserts to the south of Israel and Judah. Biblical authors knew of its climate, flora, and fauna, and understood this magnificent desert landscape as a fascinating place of literary paradox. This divine desert was far from lifeless, its plants and animals were tenacious, bizarre, fierce, even supernatural. The spiritual importance of the desert in a biblical context begins with the physical elements whose impact cognitive science can elucidate. Travellers and naturalists of the past two millennia have experienced this and other wildernesses, and their testimonies provide a window into Israel's experience of the desert. A prime focus is the existential experience encountered. Confronting the desert's enigmatic wildness, its melding of the known and unknown, leads naturally to spiritual experience. The books panoramic view of biblical spirituality of the desert is illustrated by the ways spiritual writers -- from Biblical Times to the Desert Fathers to German Mysticism -- have employed the images therefrom. Revelation and renewal are just two of many themes. Folklore of the Ancient Near East, and indeed elsewhere, that deals with the desert / wilderness archetype has been explored via Jungian psychology, Goethean Science, enunciative linguistics, and Hebrew philology. These philosophies contribute to this exploration of the Hebrew Bible's desert metaphor for God.
