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Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game Hardcover - 2013
by Sexton, John; Oliphant, Thomas; Schwartz, Peter J
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- Title Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
- Author Sexton, John; Oliphant, Thomas; Schwartz, Peter J
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 2.5.2013
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Gotham, New York
- Date 2013-03-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 231218034
- ISBN 9781592407545 / 1592407544
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.4 x 5.8 x 1 in (23.88 x 14.73 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Baseball - Religious aspects - Christianity
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012029685
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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Summary
A love letter to America's most beloved sport and an exploration of the deeper dimensions it reveals
For more than a decade, New York University President John Sexton has used baseball to illustrate the elements of a spiritual life in a wildly popular course at NYU. Using some of the great works of baseball fiction as well as the actual game's fantastic moments, its legendary characters, and its routine ritualsfrom the long-sought triumph of the 1955 Brooklyn Dodgers, to the heroic achievements of players like the saintly Christy Mathewson and the sinful Ty Cobb, to the loving intimacy of a game of catch between a father and sonSexton teaches that through the game we can touch the spiritual dimension of life.
Baseball as a Road to God is about the elements of our lives that lie beyond what can be captured in words aloneineffable truths that we know by experience rather than by logic or analysis. Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton reveals a surprising amount of common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and time, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.
In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, this book elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to a deeper and more meaningful life.