Letters from the American Desert: Signposts of a Journey, a Vision Contributor(s): Glaysher, Frederick (Author) |
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ISBN: 0967042119 ISBN-13: 9780967042114 Publisher: Earthrise Press
Binding Type: Hardcover Published: April 2008 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism - Literary Collections | Letters - Religion | Baha' I |
Dewey: 816.54 |
LCCN: 2008922794 |
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (0.79 lbs) 174 pages |
Features: Dust Cover |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Twenty years in the making, in Letters from the American Desert, Glaysher reflects on the cultural, political, and religious history of Western and non-Western civilizations, pondering the dilemmas of postmodernity, in a compelling struggle for spiritual knowledge and truth. In what is a highly autobiographical work, fully cognizant of the relativism and nihilism of modern life, Glaysher finds a deeper meaning and purpose in a universal Vision. Confronting the antinomies of the soul, grounded in the dialectic, Glaysher charts a path beyond the postmodern desert. Alluding extensively to Martin Luther and W. B. Yeats at All Souls Chapel, "metaphors for poetry," from Yeats's book A Vision, Glaysher considers the example of the global, universal message of the oneness of God, all religions, and humankind, holding out a new hope and peaceful Vision for a world in spiritual and global crisis. Far from a theocracy, Glaysher envisions a modest separation of church and state, as the will of God, in an unorganized religion, a universal synthesis of all spiritual and wisdom traditions, in harmony and balance with universal peace, in a global age of pluralism, where religious belief is a distinctive mark of the individual, not collective, communal identity. |
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