Bøker av Oliver Smith

Almost 500 years ago, pilgrimage was outlawed in England. In this book acclaimed travel writer Oliver Smith travels across Britain to create an entirely modern pilgrimage - finding the holy places across the country that time has left behind. He travels by foot, recording the landscape and people he meets as he re-discovers places that have been considered sacred in Great Britain. He uncovers the stories of individuals, religions, cults and others who had locally sourced their 'Gods' on home soil. Partly a history of pre-Christian Britain, about which almost nothing is known, partly a reflection on the roots of the British people and the nation, and a paean to the role of spirituality, sense of place and need for meaning in our lives - this book is an evocative and enlightening journey through the sacred places long since forgotten. On a Holy Island is a personal journey that will be divided into ten 'Gods'. These are Gods of many guises: prehistoric, postmodern, personal, literary, mystical and mainstream - most never considered in each other's company. They are all connected by Smith's walk and each tells us something about British culture, nostalgia, beliefs and sense of place. This is not a definitive list but instead Smith's own curated 'pantheon' - extraordinary stories chosen because they tell us something about the national character of Britain. The locations linked to these 'Gods' follow the natural westward trajectory, from London towards Wessex and Wales. It's an example of a journey that goes deeper rather than further and will inject fresh meaning into familiar places and the role of spirituality in our history.

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Explore the wonders that the world forgot with award-winning travel writer Oliver Smith - from breathtaking buildings with a dark past to decaying reminders of more troubled times.

While he is widely acknowledged as the most important Russian thinker of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Soloviev's place in the landscape of world philosophy nevertheless remains uncertain. Approaching him through a single synoptic lens, this book foregrounds his unique envisioning of the interaction between humanity and the material world. By investigating the development of a single theme in his work-his idea of the "e;spiritualization of matter"e;, the "e;task"e; of humanity-Smith constructs a rounded picture of Soloviev's overall importance to an understanding. If nineteenth-century thought, as well as to modern theology and philosophy. The picture that emerges is of a writer whose contribution to a Christian philosophy of matter resonates with many of the religious debates of modernity.

PROVERBS 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.1 CORINTHIANS 6:19 What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?1 CORINTHIANS 6:20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God''s.EZEKIEL 47:12 ... and the leaf thereof for medicine.REVELATION 22:2 ... and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.All of God''s children have a divine responsibility to keep their bodies, which are God''s free of borne diseases. God has supplied each continent of the earth with a natural source of food that is divinely designed to keep God''s children healthy and free of food borne diseases.