Loneliness & lament a journey to receptivity / [electronic resource] :
Loneliness and lament
Patricia Joy Huntington
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 315 p.)
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion .
- Indiana series in the philosophy of religion .
Description based on print version record
Includes bibliographical references and 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