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"In his famous series of four paintings, the great American ""father"" of the Hudson River School of art, Thomas Cole (1801-1848), depicted the life of a single representative human Soul as a voyage from birth to death-each painting illustrating a further bend in the river of life: Childhood, Youth, Manhood, and finally, Old Age. Cole supplemented his series with a long poem (reproduced at the end of this volume) along the lines of Dante's Divine Comedy or Newman's Dream of Gerontius, elucidating the meaning of his art. Drawing upon these resources together with the religious and philosophical influences of his time, Addison Hodges Hart succeeds in making The Voyage of Life poignantly applicable to us in the here and now. In Hart's masterful hands, Cole's masterpiece comes alive as timeless wisdom, insight, even contemplative counsel. Like all genuine art, Cole's series communicates one human soul's truth to another, regardless of the distance in space, time, or worldview that may separate them."

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ADDISON HODGES HART is the author of nine previous books, including biblical commentary, studies in spirituality and interfaith contemplative traditions, and a novel (Confessions of the Antichrist) published by Angelico Press. He is a retired university chaplain and vicar, now residing in Norway with his wife, Catholic iconographer Solrunn Nes. He is a member of the Church of England. He also has a lively, easy-to-access Substack page, The Pragmatic Mystic, that deals with topics related to his books.

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