Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

Sexton, John; Oliphant, Thomas; Schwartz, Peter J.

ISBN 10: 1592408648 / ISBN 13: 9781592408641

Editore: Penguin Publishing Group, 2014

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Riassunto:

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.

Informazioni sull'autore: John Sexton is the fifteenth president of New York University. He lives in New York City.

Thomas Oliphant was a columnist for The Boston Globe and is a New York Times bestselling author. He lives in Washington, DC.

Peter J. Schwartz is a Bloomberg News contributor and former legal fellow at NYU. He was the first student enrolled in the "Baseball as a Road to God" seminar. He lives in New York City.

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Titolo: Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the...
Casa editrice: Penguin Publishing Group
Data di pubblicazione: 2014
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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