Nature's Kindred Spirits: Aldo Leopold, Joseph Wood Krutch, Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Gary SnyderUniv of Wisconsin Press, 1994 M04 1 - 200 pages In Nature's Kindred Spirits James McClintock shows how their mystical experiences with the wild led to dramatic conversions in their thinking and behavior. By embracing the ecstasy of nature, they reject modern alienation and spiritual confusion. |
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... Christian tenets , she ransacks her experiences in nature and with religion to find the elements necessary for affirmation . Finally , Gary Snyder ( b . 1930 ) , one of America's most important living poets and an in- sightful critic of ...
... Christian encour- aging him to think about the afterlife- " One world at a time . " ' " Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker Creek , while Christian in perspective , is in many ways the work most like Walden of any in contemporary American ...
... gotten in touch with reality . That the particular must not be ignored is a central topic of Dillard's book linking natural preoccupations with theological dilemmas . That " Christ's incarnation occurred im- probably 8 Kindred Spirits.
... Christ's incarnation occurred im- probably , ridiculously at such - and - such a time into such - and- such a place , is referred to . . . as ' the scandal of particularity . ' Well , the ' scandal of particularity ' is the only world ...
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