Rocks and Waters are Words of God: Reflections on John Muir's Ecological Reading of the Bible - Softcover

Name: Rocks and Waters are Words of God: Reflections on John Muir's Ecological Reading of the Bible
Author: Hatch, Stephen K
ISBN: 9798996537266

Hatch, Stephen K

9798996537266: Rocks and Waters are Words of God: Reflections on John Muir's Ecological Reading of the Bible

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ISBN 13: 9798996537266

Verlag: Stephen K. Hatch, 2026

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John Muir is remembered as the bearded wanderer of the Sierra, the founder of the Sierra Club, and the voice that helped save Yosemite. Few think of him as a biblical interpreter. Yet Muir grew up with a fundamentalist father who made him memorize the New Testament and most of the Hebrew Bible, and he carried that scripture into the wilderness, where it was transformed.

Rocks and Waters are Words of God: Reflections on John Muir's Ecological Reading of the Bible brings together twenty-nine of the biblical echoes in Muir's writings. Each reflection pairs a scripture verse with a passage from Muir and explores what happens when scripture meets mountain. Where Genesis says God made humanity from the dust of the earth, Muir contemplates what that dust contains. Where Hebrews speaks of a "cloud of witnesses" - human pioneers of our faith, - he finds it in meadows of wildflowers and swarms of insects. Where Paul writes of predestination, Muir sees glaciers uncovering beauty that was waiting for them.

Like the monks and contemplatives of old, Muir "tasted" the Bible rather than merely analyzing it, and he discovered an ecological vision that the church has often overlooked: rocks, waters, creatures, and people all flow from one divine fountain. Each contains a living soul. His reading offers a fresh perspective for an era in which scripture is too often used to excuse harm to others and to the Earth.

Author Stephen K. Hatch, who was raised a Baptist and has long practiced contemplative spirituality, brings both a lifelong familiarity with the Bible and extensive time in wild places to these reflections. This second edition also addresses, briefly and candidly, recent criticism of Muir's views on race, while keeping the focus on Muir's encounter with the Divine in Nature.

Readers of Christian spirituality, nature writing, and John Muir will find in these pages a way of reading both scriptures: the Bible and the natural world.

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