Overview
Spiritual seekers across faith traditions share a fierce yearning for mystical unity with their God. While beliefs and practices differ, what ignites the human heart to quest for the mystical, the unknowable, the holy just beyond understanding, is the same. The Call of the Mourning Dove: How Sacred Sound Awakens Mystical Unity offers a new paradigm, the Sonic Trilogy of Love, that details how sacred sound, embedded in the ancient canons across faith traditions, creates just such a portal into this unmitigated experience of God. Because the experience is ubiquitous across faith traditions, it does not matter whether a seeker has embarked on an eclectic quest for God or remains deeply committed to questing within one particular faith tradition. All seekers, known as Lovers within the Trilogy, discover that by intoning the sacred sounds, the Love embedded in the ancient languages, the conditions are set to experience unity with God, the Beloved. This unity occurs in unforeseen moments, as love, the core organizing principle of the Trilogy, circles in on itself, dissolving all distinctions, leaving the Lover filled with only the silent wonder of God. And, graciously, nothing is the same.
Full Product Details
Author: Stephanie Rutt ,
S Mark Heim
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Imprint: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.327kg
ISBN: 9781532661143
ISBN 10: 1532661142
Pages: 152
Publication Date: 20 May 2019
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
A person could make the argument that a prayer in a language we cannot understand is not one we can pray. But another could retort just as easily, 'What does it mean to understand a prayer?' In her book, Stephanie Rutt explores how prayers in an unfamiliar language can transport us, through their sacred sound, to another time, place, and posture toward God. --Sarah B. Drummond, Andover Newton Seminary
"""A person could make the argument that a prayer in a language we cannot understand is not one we can pray. But another could retort just as easily, 'What does it mean to understand a prayer?' In her book, Stephanie Rutt explores how prayers in an unfamiliar language can transport us, through their sacred sound, to another time, place, and posture toward God."" --Sarah B. Drummond, Andover Newton Seminary"
Author Information
Stephanie Rutt is founder and presiding minister of the Tree of Life Interfaith Temple in Milford, NH. She received her DMin from Andover Newton Theological School, now Andover Newton Seminary at Yale, where her thesis, the basis for this book, won the Frederick Buechner Prize for Excellence in Writing. She is the creator of the Tree of Life Interfaith Seminary, author of several additional books, and has appeared on the TEDx stage.
