Loneliness & lament [electronic resource] : a journey to receptivity / Patricia Joy Huntington.
Series: Indiana series in the philosophy of religionPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.Description: xxviii, 315 pISBN:- 9780253352989 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0253352983 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780253220677 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 025322067X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Loneliness and lament
- 155.9/2 22
- BD435 .H86 2009eb

Includes index.
Prelude: A wayfarer's song -- Part I: Life is song : the quest for music and meaning -- Fitful dreams -- Life and the fight for word -- Primitive aloneness : our true home -- Receptivity and the quest for meaning-filled living -- Loneliness and deliverance -- Part II: Lamentation and woe : the quest for the mother -- Shadows of sorrow-filled lamentation -- Ode to the cup of bitterness -- Pain and bearing -- Lamentation and sorrow -- Tears for want of comforting protection -- Loneliness whom I must befriend -- Where joy and sorrow meet -- Part III: Intimacy and bearing : the quest for the Father -- Life's masculine character -- For what are we set up? -- Soft words for mother -- For what divine operation are we set up? -- Journey to the land where heart grows -- Pain and intimacy : the pause in bearing -- One step-- along the way -- A resonant chorus.
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