Honey from Stone
A Naturalist's Search for God
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2005
188 pages
978-1-56101-337-1 (ISBN)
Description
"What is the relevance of traditional religion in the world described by contemporary science? Is scientific knowledge a satisfactory ground for the religious experience? Can the language of traditional religion constitute an appropriately modern language of praise?"
-from Honey from Stone
Framing his meditations as a Book of Hours, scientist Chet Raymo exercises the languages of theology and science to express the majesty of Ireland's remote Dingle Peninsula. As he wanders the land year upon year, Raymo gathers the revelations embedded in the geological and cultural history of this wild and ancient place. "When I called out for the Absolute, I was answered by the wind," Raymo writes. "If it was God's voice in the wind, then I heard it."
In poetic prose grounded in a mind trained to discover fact, Honey from Stone enters the wonder of the material world in search of our deepest nature.
-from Honey from Stone
Framing his meditations as a Book of Hours, scientist Chet Raymo exercises the languages of theology and science to express the majesty of Ireland's remote Dingle Peninsula. As he wanders the land year upon year, Raymo gathers the revelations embedded in the geological and cultural history of this wild and ancient place. "When I called out for the Absolute, I was answered by the wind," Raymo writes. "If it was God's voice in the wind, then I heard it."
In poetic prose grounded in a mind trained to discover fact, Honey from Stone enters the wonder of the material world in search of our deepest nature.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-1-56101-337-1 (9781561013371)
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08/2005
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Person
Chey Raymo is professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. A teacher, naturalist, and former science columnist for the Boston Globe, he is the author of many books including The Soul of the Night, Climbing Brandon, and The Path.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Matins
- Put on Your lumping Shoes
- Lauds
- The God That Makes Fire in the Head
- Prime
- In the Treasure House of Snow
- Terce
- Abracadabra
- Sext
- I Would Be Like a Little Bird
- Nones
- A Thousand Years in Your Sight
- Vespers
- The Gift of Luminosity
- Compline
- The Knowing That Unknows
- Index
