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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... Religion Out of Ethics (1999) Doubts and Loves: What Is Left of Christianity (2001) On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgiveable? (2002) How to Read the Bible (2006) Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human ...
... Religion Out of Ethics (1999) Doubts and Loves: What Is Left of Christianity (2001) On Forgiveness: How Can We Forgive the Unforgiveable? (2002) How to Read the Bible (2006) Between the Monster and the Saint: Reflections on the Human ...
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The Human Search for Meaning Richard Holloway. A Little History of Religion (2016) Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death (2018) RICHARD HOLLOWAY Looking in the Distance The Human Search for.
The Human Search for Meaning Richard Holloway. A Little History of Religion (2016) Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death (2018) RICHARD HOLLOWAY Looking in the Distance The Human Search for.
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... religion, people would soon give up on ethics; that without God there could be no human goodness. And I sketched an ... religious press. It was praised by some philosophers and attacked by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey ...
... religion, people would soon give up on ethics; that without God there could be no human goodness. And I sketched an ... religious press. It was praised by some philosophers and attacked by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, George Carey ...
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... religion. Indeed, it has a whole subsection of theology to itself, covering subjects such as prayer, silence and self-discipline. But for many people today religion is no longer a way of life that is possible for them. They may or may ...
... religion. Indeed, it has a whole subsection of theology to itself, covering subjects such as prayer, silence and self-discipline. But for many people today religion is no longer a way of life that is possible for them. They may or may ...
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... over, I can see that this is a very personal book. For better or for worse, it is one man's account of what he has seen after a lifetime spent looking in the distance. I LOOKING 1 STILL LOOKING All religions will pass, but.
... over, I can see that this is a very personal book. For better or for worse, it is one man's account of what he has seen after a lifetime spent looking in the distance. I LOOKING 1 STILL LOOKING All religions will pass, but.
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