Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies

by Michael Novak

Book Overview

The essence of Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove remains intact: its vision of religious studies as sustained refl ection on our lifelong voyage to discover who we are. The story we choose... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060663200
• ISBN13: 9780060663209
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
• Length: 240 Pages

Customer Reviews

Powerful

I read this book in a college philosophy course and it has stuck with me ever since. Novak talks in the book about religious or, as I prefer to think of them, transcendent experiences. He posits that philosophy evolved to understand and explain such experiences, then grew to the point where these who studied them actually looked down on those who actually experienced them. This notion has helped me keep a center course when my mental machinations threatened to overpower my experience of life. Very powerful book.