Trinitarian Thoughts on Descending into the Grand Canyon
“The Grand Canyon is … a cauldron of death, symbol of creation's bloody chalice. Its restless sides teem with life, propelled by an insatiable drive to endure, indeed, to prevail. Wind, river, clutching root-fingers of trees, lean varmints in crouched determination—all are sister-brothers in th...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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1992
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Theology today
Anno: 1992, Volume: 49, Fascicolo: 3, Pagine: 333-343 |
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| Riepilogo: | “The Grand Canyon is … a cauldron of death, symbol of creation's bloody chalice. Its restless sides teem with life, propelled by an insatiable drive to endure, indeed, to prevail. Wind, river, clutching root-fingers of trees, lean varmints in crouched determination—all are sister-brothers in the surging restlessness. … [H]ere one can sense strangely that consciousness is not alien, but a breakthrough—within and for the whole. Ironically, while such emergence brings the alienating burden of knowing what nothing else in creation seems yet to know, it opens the religious threshold: greeting self-consciousness as the emergence of the whole.” |
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| ISSN: | 2044-2556 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Theology today
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/004057369204900305 |