GOD IN ALL WORLDS: An Anthology of Contemporary Spiritual Writing

by Lucinda Vardey

Hardcover, 1995

Status

Available

Call number

VAR-001

Publication

Pantheon (1995), Edition: 1st American ed, 877 pages

Description

Spanning fifty years and representing traditions from Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism to Gaia worship and New Age beliefs, this bountiful anthology forms an inclusive map of the spiritual journey and its landmarks. Its twenty-two chapters describe prayer and meditation, the power of myth, the Mother goddess and the Cosmic Christ, the struggle with evil, the gifts of love and grace, and the awe-filled encounter with a divine Other that is intensely personal yet has the capacity to transform the world. God in All Worlds includes the work of some of the great religious thinkers of our century--Krishnamurti, Paul Tillich, Martin Buber, the Dalai Lama, and Mother Teresa. But among its more than one-hundred contributors are also poets (Allen Ginsberg, Maya Angelou), novelists (Flannery O'Connor), activists (Mahatma Gandhi, Vaclav Havel), psychologists (Carl Jung, Abraham Maslow), feminists (Germaine Greer, Robin Morgan), naturalists (Barry Lopez), and physicists (Albert Einstein, Fritjof Capra). The result is a book of dazzling breadth and insight that will inspire, console, enlighten, and renew readers for years to come.… (more)

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This anthology is a complete guide to spiritual writings from 1945 to the present day, with over 130 contributors ranging from C.S. Lewis, C.G. Jung and M. Scott Peck to Martin Luther King Jr., Carlos Casteneda and Vaclav Havel. While examining traditional eastern and western spiritualism, the book
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also explores the more recent feminist theology, New Age spirituality, eco-consciousness and cosmological discoveries. The anthology is compiled within the structure of a spiritual journey: the quest, revelation, trials, surrender, death, eternal life and awe. Writers and thinkers from all backgrounds - Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, Christian, Taoist and agnostic - are brought together to explore all the various facets of modern spirituality and religious experience in our post war age.
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ISBN

0679442146 / 9780679442141

Call number

VAR-001

Rating

(12 ratings; 3.4)

Pages

877

Library's review

From Thomas Merton and Krishnamurti to Albert Einstein and Mother Teresa, this magnificent collection of spiritual writings features works designed to renew the soul and celebrate its journey toward the divine.
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