In the Absence of God: Dwelling in the Presence of the Sacred

By Sam Keen

Book Overview

In his new book, bestselling author Sam Keen challenges the notions and habits we've formed about religion over the centuries in order for us to build a deeper faith, that is relevant?today. ? He asks: * How has religion failed us'. * Must we choose between dogmatic religion and atheism? * How might religion unite rather than divide us? ? The answers, Keen discovers, point the way back to the primal emotions, to the life-giving sense of dwelling in the presence of the sacred.. ? In the Absence of God sets out to recover the elemental experience of the sacred in everyday life. By appreciating emotions like wonder, gratitude, anxiety, joy, grief, reverence, compassion, outrage, hope and humility we may once again find ourselves in the presence of an unknowable but all present G-D. We may also regain the commonalities between Christians, Jews, Muslims, and other spirit traditions and end the contentious differences that have divided them and our world. ?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307462293
• ISBN13: 9780307462299
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harmony
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Sam, Fabulous!

I agree that this book takes some time to digest. When I read Sam's books, I feel I am in a personal conversation with him, with great intimacy and truth involved. He, like Joseph Campbell, suggests large ideas to ponder and ways to work out a very personal kind of salvation during this finite time we are here on Earth.

Living the questions

Imagine a lifetime of responding to Rilke's dictum "to live the questions" and you can appreciate the wisdom to be found in Sam Keen's latest book. It is a work to be wrestled and engaged with, not simply read and put aside.