Book: Hardcover | 5.51 x 9.25in | 240 pages | ISBN 9781594201691 | 29 May 2008 | The Penguin Press | 18 - AND UP years
“In our era of dangerously colliding belief systems Carse shows how at its core religion reveals a reality that we can not know. His book demonstrates a superb command of religious history and is written in an inviting and engaging style: A voice of sanity amidst the screaming.”—Harvey G. Cox, author of When Jesus Came to Harvard and Hollis Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
“Religion in its present form is a vast work of poetry,” writes James Carse in his intriguing new definition of religion. Learned, sober and clear—and wonderfully free of academic jargon—this book opens the mind to a broad appreciation of the riches of religion, at a moment when no issue is more crucial to the world crisis and our concomitant personal anxiety. Especially valuable for understanding America’s infatuation with the phenomenon of Belief, which is always subject to, and often indistinguishable from, dogmas and dangerous delusions.”—James Hillman, author of The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling
“In prose as clean as a hound's (of heaven?) tooth, James Carse incisively lays bare the pertinence to religion of Nicholas of Cusa's "learned ignorance" against all foreclosed circumscriptions - including, admittedly, this one! - by systems of belief. A fascinating array of characters and issues creates the sense for the reader of an ongoing and unresolved theological drama.”—Christopher L. Morse, author of Not Every Spirit: A Dogmatics of Christian Disbelief and Union Theological Seminary Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Theology and Ethics
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