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The God of Wild Places

Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors
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Millions of Americans, disillusioned with organized religion, yearn for meaning and transcendence in their lives, and many of them are finding that in nature. When pastor and theologian Tony Jones, Ph.D., had his crisis of faith, brought on by personal trauma and broken relationships, he sought solace in the outdoors – paddling a canoe, hunting with his dog, butchering deer. He walked out of the church and into the woods, leaving the orderly pews and numbered hymns for chaotic and untamed spaces. And he re-discovered God — a God who brings peace in the midst of storms, a God who lives in the community of our fellow creatures, a God who’s acquainted with death. This is the God of wild places. In The God of Wild Places, Tony mines his own experiences, recent research in evolutionary psychology, and ancient wisdom from various spiritual and philosophical traditions to fashion lessons about solitude, the predator-prey relationship, the importance of place, risk, failure, and death, and the chaotic presence of God. Tony’s guidance in The God of Wild Places promises to introduce a generation of Americans to the transcendence available only in untamed spaces; his writing draws on wisdom from Christianity to Buddhism, Kant to Cioran, Jim Harrison to Annie Dillard. This is a journey of loss and discovery through forests and fields, lakes and streams, from knowing to unknowing, from finding to losing — from life to death, and then back to life.

Author Biography:

Tony Jones is the author of numerous books, including Did God Kill Jesus? (HarperOne, 2016), , The Sacred Way: Spiritual Practices for Everyday Life (Zondervan 2010), and The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier (Fortress, 2019). Over the past decade, he has established himself as a highly respected outdoors writer and is a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America; his articles regularly appear in the Outdoors section of the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Outdoor News, and Pheasants Forever Journal, and he has appeared on various outdoors-oriented radio shows. His highly acclaimed series, “Boundary Waters Passage,” appeared over the course of six weeks in the summer of 2019 in the Star Tribune and won the AP Sports Editors Award for Best Project (besting the New York Times and the Washington Post) and the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists award for Best Web Project. He has subsequently won several awards from the Outdoor Writers Association of America. He hosts the Reverend Hunter Podcast on the Talk North Network, which highlights interesting people seeking spiritual encounters in their outdoors pursuits. Tony is a sought-after speaker at conferences, churches, colleges, and graduate schools, and he serves as a professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. He teaches writing classes on memoir at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis and leads writers’ retreats in Italy and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. He served as a theological consultant on the Hulu television show The Path starring Aaron Paul. He lives in Minnesota with his three children, his spouse, and their dogs.
Release date NZ
April 2nd, 2024
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Pages
184
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
146x225x20
ISBN-13
9781538184448
Product ID
38091400

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