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Wisdom Sings the World

Wisdom Sings the World


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About the Book

There has been much fascination of late with the esoteric side of Christianity--witness the phenomenon of The Da Vinci Code and The Lost Symbol, as well as the attention paid to various Gnostic Gospels.

This book will not add to this list.

Instead it goes back to the source of those books which lies in an encounter with Wisdom, not as a concept but as the living reality that underlies all of creation, and that accounts for the power found in works like The Song of Songs and The Divine Comedy, in the important Native American novel Ceremony, and in experiences with labyrinths, mandalas and the hermetic/alchemical and Grail traditions explored so fruitfully by Carl Jung and his followers.

Thorpe takes the reader on a journey through these texts and images, in part for the sheer pleasure of their company (as he's found over the course of decades of teaching), but also to suggest why books like The Da Vinci Code ultimately fail: we are getting a story about Wisdom and not the deep mystery that lies within everything around us.

We are not getting the poetry in things.

These essays are not intended as academic exercises; they are closer in style to the essays Thorpe has written for Parabola magazine--meaning that while the book has rich intellectual content it is written in a lyrical style that seeks to evoke something of Wisdom Herself, a style already displayed in his book Rapture of the Deep, which won the David Family Environmental Book Award.

The book will appeal to the educated reader who is interested in his or her own spiritual work and who also has an interest in the meaning of art in a spiritual context, and in particular in connection to the Wisdom Tradition or what is sometimes called The Perennial Philosophy.
About the Author: Doug Thorpe is Professor of English at Seattle Pacific University. He is the author of A New Earth, a study of the metaphorical buildings in The Pearl, The Temple of George Herbert, and Blake's Jerusalem; and Rapture of the Deep: Reflections on the Wild in Art, Wilderness, and the Temple, which won the David Family Environmental Book Award. He is also the editor of the anthology Work and the Life of the Spirit.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781930337558
  • Publisher: Codhill Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Codhill Press
  • Depth: 19
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 18 mm
  • Weight: 489 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1930337558
  • Publisher Date: 15 Dec 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 270
  • Series Title: Codhill Press
  • Sub Title: Poetry, Creation and the Way of Dwelling
  • Width: 150 mm


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