Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for MeaningSpirituality, like morality, has historically been tied to religion – and yet it is possible for one to exist without the other. In this meditative and highly personal account, Richard Holloway considers the nature of the spiritual, and what it means to live with the inevitability of death. Both celebration of the possibilities that life affords and an examination of how doubts and fears too often paralyse, especially as we age, Looking in the Distance is an inspiration, told with the compassion and good humour characteristic of its author. |
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... believe that the Bible is a contemporary or living text, a sort of running Web Page from God. I never really believed that, even when I thought I did, but I certainly don't believe it now; which is why I have used a text that makes no ...
... believe that the Bible is a contemporary or living text, a sort of running Web Page from God. I never really believed that, even when I thought I did, but I certainly don't believe it now; which is why I have used a text that makes no ...
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... believe' in God, but they are no longer comfortable in any of the traditional religions. This enormous group of people has been described as 'the Church alumni association' or 'the Church in exile'. However, there is something faintly ...
... believe' in God, but they are no longer comfortable in any of the traditional religions. This enormous group of people has been described as 'the Church alumni association' or 'the Church in exile'. However, there is something faintly ...
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... believe that the war of opposing interpretations is pointless, because the mystery of the meaning of Being can be neither demonstrated nor destroyed by explanation, it is a wound that has to be endured. And R.S. Thomas is our poet: Why ...
... believe that the war of opposing interpretations is pointless, because the mystery of the meaning of Being can be neither demonstrated nor destroyed by explanation, it is a wound that has to be endured. And R.S. Thomas is our poet: Why ...
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... believe that everything in their scriptures is permanently commanded, including male dominance and homophobia, because it means they have to apply first-or seventh-century customs to twenty-first-century men and women, who, not ...
... believe that everything in their scriptures is permanently commanded, including male dominance and homophobia, because it means they have to apply first-or seventh-century customs to twenty-first-century men and women, who, not ...
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