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Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Lexington Books
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau's thinking about religious "play" created a theological legacy in American literature--one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational "looseness" or "mobility" in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. From this perspective, Robert Leigh Davis argues, unswerving orthodoxy is not as crucial to a life of faith as a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly revises fixed assumptions in light of new experiences. Dickinson describes this responsiveness as "nimble believing" and Thoreau calls it "holy play." Scholars of literature, religion, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.
Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead and Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to GileadPlayful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead
  • Author

    Robert Leigh Davis

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Lexington Books

  • Published

    September 2022

  • Weight

    373g

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781793626301

  • ISBN-10

    1793626308

  • Eden Code

    5705963

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