The Larger Conversation : Contemplation and Place.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (297 pages)
Front cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Introduction -- I -- 1 The Ethical Significance of the Human Relationship to Place -- 2 The Start of Real Thinking -- 3 On Scholem, Ruusbroec and Exegesis -- 4 Imagination, Psychagogy and Ontology -- 5 Mostly on Prayer -- 6 Seeing into Things -- II -- 7 A Mandelstamian Generation in China -- 8 Poetry as Pneumatic Force -- 9 Fresh Coherence -- 10 Turning the Soul Around -- 11 Negative Theological Meditations -- 12 Thinking the Rule of Benedict within Modernity -- 13 Thomas Merton's Novitiate Talks on Cistercian Usages and Richard Kearney's Theandrism -- III -- 14 A Poetics of Decolonization -- 15 Contemplative Experience -- Autochthonous Practice -- 16 Faith and Land -- 17 Nothingness -- Epilogue -- Dramatis Personae -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Reading -- Permissions -- Index -- About the Author.
Philosophical commentaries on the difficult task of forming a deep, respectful relationship with the land.