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A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes: A Backpacker’s Encounters with God and Nature

By Mark Clavier

Book information

Publisher
T&T Clark
Year
2022
ISBN
9780567703552, 9780567703569, 9780567703576, 9780567703583
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3608025 bytes)
Pages
\209
Time added
2023-05-22 11:29:21

Description

Mark Clavier examines a series of paradoxes that lie at the heart of Christian faith: eternity and time, silence and words, and wonder and the commonplace. In an intellectual reflection on that overnight trek and other wilderness walks, he explores the oft-hidden connections between faith, society, and nature. Each reflection ranges widely through history, folklore, poetry, philosophy, and theology to consider what these paradoxes can teach us about God, ourselves, and our world. Drawing on the recent upsurge in interest in the personal experience of landscapes and memory, this book invites readers to walk with Clavier in the Appalachians, Norway, Iceland, the Alps, and around Britain as he discovers the ways in which Christianity is profoundly earthed. The Genesis command, ‘What God has joined together, let no one separate’, serves as a guide towards an ecological understanding of the Christian faith that joins heaven and earth in nuptial union. By weaving together nature-writing, memoir, social commentary, and theological reflection A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes uses a memorable mountain journey in the ancient landscape of Wales to draw readers into reflecting about what it means to belong. Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Contents Figures Welsh names Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Cadair Idris: Encountering God and nature on a Welsh mountain Part I: The paradox of eternity and time Chapter 2: Cwm Cau: Timelessness Chapter 3: Dysynni Valley: Thick time Chapter 4: The Iincarnation Part II: The paradox of silence and words Chapter 5: Craig Lwyd: Silence Chapter 6: Gwyn ap Nudd: Words Chapter 7: Baptism Part III: The paradox of wonder and the commonplace Chapter 8: Penygadair: The wonderful Chapter 9: Rhiw Gwredydd: The commonplace Chapter 10: The Eucharist Chapter 11: Iinhabiting Hiraeth and Tangnefedd Bibliography Index

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