Baseball as a Road to God
Seeing Beyond the Game
The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. 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. 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. Structured lik…
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Weitere Autoren: Oliphant, Thomas / Schwartz, Peter J.
- ISBN: 978-1-101-60973-6
- EAN: 9781101609736
- Produktnummer: 17984935
- Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'249 KB
Über den Autor
John Sexton is the fifteenth president of New York University. He lives in New York City.Thomas Oliphant was a columnist for The Boston Globe and is a New York Times bestselling author. He lives in Washington, DC.Peter J. Schwartz is a Bloomberg News contributor and former legal fellow at NYU. He was the first student enrolled in the Baseball as a Road to God seminar. He lives in New York City.
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