States of Grace: The Recovery of Meaning in the Postmodern Age

by Charlene Spretnak

Book Overview

This is an invitation to a spiritual awakening. The author demonstrates the relevance of spiritual issues to pragmatic concerns - of modern life, weaving the diverse insights of spiritual traditions into a tapestry of creativity and renewal. By the author of Lost Goddesses of Early Greece.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062508245
• ISBN13: 9780062508249
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: HarperOne
• Length: 337 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Recovery of Sanity in an Age of Surfeit

I've been periodically re-reading this book since I first read it in 1993, and I learn more each time. Brilliant insight, wisdom, and writing.

A Beautiful Book

Spretnak does perhaps the best job I have seen in explaining where the intellectual currents of the West have brought us in this small book. What a shame it is out of print! Maybe my only complaint is the way that she lumps all of deconstructionist philosophy together, drawing conclusions from the project that not even Derrida would recognize. Nevertheless, the beauty of the book lies in the way that she argues for a CONstructive theology and philosophy, using the category of creativity and and feminine aspects of God(dess) to explain how to heal our hurts. Do yourself a favor and read this book.

Religious Experience Defined

Although I can't totally get behind the author's Goddess philosophy, her point is well-argued. This is a very valuable book for anyone who wants a fresh look at modern ills.Her recognition of our society's destructive "savvy detachment" is pure genius. This book will be hated by deconstructionists, half my college professors, capitalists, communists, people who fear religion, and other sundry materialists who feed on apathy and who promote the destruction of the spiritual and the true. That should be enough reason to read this book!