Baseball as a Road to God
Author: Sexton, John
ISBN: 9781592408641
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Mar 2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
br/>Based on his popular NYU course, New York University President John Sexton's thoughtful analysis of the game of baseball in which he explores the connection between the sport and religion.br/>BR>BR>b>The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality./b>br>br>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.br>br>i>Baseball as a Road to God/i> 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.br>br>Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball's most historic moments, i>Baseball as Road to God/i> 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.
ISBN: 9781592408641
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
Year first published: 04 Mar 2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
br/>Based on his popular NYU course, New York University President John Sexton's thoughtful analysis of the game of baseball in which he explores the connection between the sport and religion.br/>BR>BR>b>The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality./b>br>br>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.br>br>i>Baseball as a Road to God/i> 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.br>br>Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball's most historic moments, i>Baseball as Road to God/i> 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.
