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In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for t

Spiritual life --- Wilderness (Theology) --- Deserts --- Mountains --- Asceticism --- Escape (Psychology) --- Typology (Theology) --- Christianity. --- Religious aspects --- Christianity --- Lane, Belden C., --- Spiritual life - Christianity. --- Deserts - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Mountains - Religious aspects - Christianity. --- Lane, Belden C., - 1943 --- -Spiritual life - Christianity. --- -Spiritual life