Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies

by Michael Novak

Book Overview

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose for ourselves, the story we live, can sacralize or secularize our lives and our world by the way in which we choose to relate to it. With this awareness of the story dimension of life, Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove opens us to awe, reverence,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1412808847
• ISBN13: 9781412808842
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Powerful

I read this book in a college philosophy course and it has stuck with me ever since. Novak talks in the book about religious or, as I prefer to think of them, transcendent experiences. He posits that philosophy evolved to understand and explain such experiences, then grew to the point where these who studied them actually looked down on those who actually experienced them. This notion has helped me keep a center course when my mental machinations threatened to overpower my experience of life. Very powerful book.