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This book is an interdisciplinary synthesis and interpretation about the experience of light as revealed in a wide range of art and literature from Paleolithic to Roman times. Humanistic in spirit and in its handling of facts, it marshals a substantial body of scholarship to develop an explication of light as a central, even dramatic, reality of human existence and experience in diverse cultural settings. David S. Herrstrom underscores our intimacy with light--not only its constant presence in our life but its insinuating character. Focusing on our encounters with light and ways of making...

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The Book of Unknowing meditates on Johns confrontation with the incandescent Jesus, a figure of our desire for immortality. Guiding us through the Gospels coming to grips with Jesus, the poet David Sten Herrstrom prefers sparking the imagination to arguing a thesis, as he explores Johns own obsessions, such as image (light), symbol (water), sign (water to wine), shapeliness (symmetry), loves (Peter, Marys), and above all, words (the Word, the body of Jesus).
The result is a heady, literary engagement not afraid of wit and paradox. For anyone who loves literature or whose...

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The Book of Unknowing meditates on Johns confrontation with the incandescent Jesus, a figure of our desire for immortality. Guiding us through the Gospels coming to grips with Jesus, the poet David Sten Herrstrom prefers sparking the imagination to arguing a thesis, as he explores Johns own obsessions, such as image (light), symbol (water), sign (water to wine), shapeliness (symmetry), loves (Peter, Marys), and above all, words (the Word, the body of Jesus).
The result is a heady, literary engagement not afraid of wit and paradox. For anyone who loves literature or whose business...