The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and CultureISBN: 978-1-4051-1974-0
Hardcover
232 pages
June 2004, Wiley-Blackwell
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"The Sacred Desert is a marvellous and truly integral
conjunction of seemingly every dimension of that ultimate desert
which is at once our deepest beginning and our deepest ending.
Theological and poetic at once, and critical and historical
simultaneously, it offers us a vicarious voyage into our most
ultimate ground, a ground beyond God but nontheless embodying the
totality of the Godhead. If that Godhead is an absolute
nothingness, it is a truly actual nothingness, and most actual for
us in that desert which is here so powerfully and so
comprehensively evoked." Thomas Altizer, Professor Emeritus of
Religious Studies at the State University of New York and Stony
Brook
"The Sacred Desert provides a journey into the innermost
core of the self--where the soul stands alone before an unknown
God, who is both darkness and light. David Jasper has written a
magnificent theological reflection on the depth of spiritual
meaning sought and found by desert pilgrims in literature, art,
film, history, and sacred scripture. A tour de force!"
David Klemm, University of Iowa