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This review is from: Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Revised Edition) (Paperback)
I read this book in a college philosophy course and it has stuck with me ever since. Novak talks in the book about religious or, as I prefer to think of them, transcendent experiences. He posits that philosophy evolved to understand and explain such experiences, then grew to the point where these who studied them actually looked down on those who actually experienced them.
This notion has helped me keep a center course when my mental machinations threatened to overpower my experience of life. Very powerful book.
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The essence of this book is what we all search for,
This review is from: Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Paperback)
As the reviewer above, this book was assigned in a theology course I took in college just after the second printing. The essence of the teaching of "story" stuck with me but I had forgotten the name of the book...luckily, I still have my college notes (writers never throw anything away--it might be useful someday) and have been searching for the book online as I must have been the one semester I sold all my books back to buy flowers for my mother for Mother's Day. If I find it in a box somewhere...so much the better. I'll have two copies.
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Ascent of the mountain, flight of the dove;: An invitation to religious studies by Michael Novak (Paperback - 1971)
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