Just Traveling

God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road

von Jaco J Hamman

168 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience as well as the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hamman reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care--the compassionate reaching out to someone or something--is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer.

• Themen: Philosophie und Religion Religion und Glaube Christentum Christliches Leben und christliche Praxis
• ISBN: 9781506472065
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 17.08.2021
• Größe: 218 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Augsburg Fortress Publishing