Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

by Vigen Guroian

Book Overview

The garden is a personal place of retreat and delight and labor for many people. Gardening helps us collect ourselves, much as praying does. For rich and poor- it makes no difference- a garden is a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802845886
• ISBN13: 9780802845887
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Unity of Creation and Redemption

In this remarkable little book, Guroian has exemplified the way in which Orthodox Christian theology/spirituality enables one to have spectacular insight into the nature of creaturely life in the created world. His reflections appropriate the heart of Orthodox thought to gardening: that redemption is the union of God with the whole cosmos. This is a done in a poetic and contemplative way that is a joy to read.