"Lying between the earth and the heavens": spirituality of place in 19th- and 20th-century American nature writing.
In Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, Victor and Edith Turner discuss how pilgrimage is rooted in place and time. Pilgrimage points to the historicity of God, the belief that an infinite Absolute is found in particular places at particular times by particular people. In suggesting that natur...
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| Summary: | In Image and Pilgrimage in Christian Culture, Victor and Edith Turner discuss how pilgrimage is rooted in place and time. Pilgrimage points to the historicity of God, the belief that an infinite Absolute is found in particular places at particular times by particular people. In suggesting that natural landscapes can be the site of spiritual revelation, 19 th and 20th century American nature writers subscribe to a similar belief that Divinity is made manifest in particular natural places. Henry David Thoreau points to such a spirituality when he notes in Walden that "God himself culminates in the present moment" and that "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." |
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