Lilburn, Tim.

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.

9781772123586


Electronic books.

GF21.L553 2017

814.54