| Road of the Heart's Desire: An Essay on the Cycles of Story and Song Contributor(s): Dunne, John S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0268040125 ISBN-13: 9780268040123 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2002 Annotation: The Road of the Heart's Desire focuses on the emergence of the human race and the individual from an undifferentiated oneness and the return of the individual to the human community and to reflective and differentiated oneness with God. Dunne expresses this reunion through music and language. "Thinking of the human essence, we can discern in story and song a double emergence and separation, that of the human race and that of the individual, " he writes. Dunne traces four cycles of story and song: the unity of all things, an emergence and separation of the human race, the emergence of the individual, and finally a reunion of humanity with "all in all." The "road of the heart's desire" is the path each person takes toward this reunion. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Religion | Christian Living - General - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 248 |
| LCCN: 2002012607 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6.8" W x 11.4" (0.68 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "John Dunne has been pursuing human wholeness through the course of his many books. His insights into our completeness come out of his unique journey leading to the healing of his own separations: from the paths not taken earlier in life that return to join the one consciously chosen; from his relationships with others, leading to his meeting other people where we are most alone; and, ultimately, from his discovery of God's presence in his own experience of longing." --Carol Ochs, Hebrew Union College "The old master has been at work again John Dunne provides a rare combination of the poignantly personal with the utterly universal, a work of intense thought and reflection that erupts into song, a book that like a good friend pauses and responds to your questions about the life of the spirit as it pauses and responds to John Dunne's own doubts and difficulties and desires." --John T. Noonan, author of The Lustre of Our Country "Dunne is one of our finest writers of spiritual literature. His intellectual breadth alone marks his work as significant. His poetic style prompts slow and careful reading. . . . John Dunne offers nourishment to which we can return often." --Denise Carmody, Santa Clara University |
Contributor Bio(s): Dunne, John S.: - John S. Dunne is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of more than fifteen books including Reading the Gospel and The Mystic Road of Love, both published by the University of Notre Dame Press. |
