The God of Wild Places: Rediscovering the Divine in the Untamed Outdoors

Tony Jones, a pastor and theologian, lost his faith and found it again in nature, discovering a God who brings peace in the midst of storms, lives in the community of fellow creatures, and is acquainted with death. His book, The God of Wild Places, offers lessons about solitude, the predator-prey relationship, the importance of place, risk, failure, and death, and the chaotic presence of God. It promises to introduce a generation of Americans to the transcendence available only in untamed spaces.

Format: Hardback
Length: 184 pages
Publication date: 02 June 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

A pastor named Tony Jones, Ph.D., embarked on a quest for God after experiencing personal trauma and broken relationships. He sought solace in the outdoors, engaging in activities like canoeing, hunting with his dog, and butchering deer. In this journey, he left the orderly pews and numbered hymns of organized religion behind and ventured into chaotic spaces and untamed wilderness. Through his experiences, recent research in evolutionary psychology, and ancient wisdom from various spiritual and philosophical traditions, Tony mined lessons about solitude, the predator-prey relationship, the importance of place, risk, failure, and death, and the chaotic presence of God. His book, "The God of Wild Places," promises to introduce a generation of Americans to the transcendence available only in untamed spaces. His writing draws on wisdom from Christianity to Buddhism, Kant to Cioran, Jim Harrison to Annie Dillard, and offers a journey of loss and discovery through forests and fields, lakes and streams, from knowing to unknowing, from finding to losing, and from life to death, and then back to life.

Weight: 338g
Dimension: 147 x 223 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538184448