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Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game

The president of New York University offers a love letter to Americaâ€™s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
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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.
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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.
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Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseballâ€™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.
Country USA
Brand Avery
Manufacturer Penguin Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber unknown
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2014-03-04
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781592408641

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