Mark Clavier

A Pilgrimage of Paradoxes (eBook, PDF)

A Backpacker's Encounters with God and Nature

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the 2022 Nautilus Book Award in Religion / Spirituality of Western Thought (#24B)

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 an overnight trek on Cadair Idris in Wales 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.

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.

Please find the study guide for this book here: https://convivium-brecon.com/a-pilgrimage-of-paradoxes

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780567703583
• Artikelnr.: 62745681

Autorenporträt

Mark Clavier is the Residentiary Canon of Brecon Cathedral, UK, and chair of the Standing Doctrinal Commission for the Church in Wales.

Inhaltsangabe

Glossary and Guide to Welsh Names
Preface
Chapter 1:
Cadair Idris: Encountering God on a Welsh Mountain
Part 1 The Paradox of Eternity and Time
Chapter 2:
Cwm Cau: Timelessness
Chapter 3:
Dysynni Valley: Thick-Time
Chapter 4:
Incarnation
Part 2 The Paradox of Silence and Words
Chapter 5:
Craig Lwyd: Silence
Chapter 6:
Gwyn ap Nudd: Words
Chapter 7:
Baptism
Part 3 The Paradox of Wonder and the Commonplace
Chapter 8:
Penygadair: The Wonderful
Chapter 9:
Rhiw Gwredydd: The Commonplace
Chapter 10:
Eucharist
Chapter 11:
Inhabiting Hiraeth and Tangnefedd
Bibliography
Index