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Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game Trade paperback - 2014
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 Trade Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group
- Date 2014
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 1004872
- ISBN 9781592408641 / 1592408648
- Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
- Dimensions 8.13 x 5.35 x 0.67 in (20.65 x 13.59 x 1.70 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Dewey Decimal Code 796.357
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Summary
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.
Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others.
Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other.
Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others.
Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.