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Baseball as a Road to God

2013-03-07 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2013-03-07
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 737/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Baseball as a Road to God by : John Sexton

Download or read book Baseball as a Road to God written by John Sexton. This book was released on 2013-03-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’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.

Baseball as a Road to God

2014-03-04 Religion
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Release : 2014-03-04
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 648/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Baseball as a Road to God by : John Sexton

Download or read book Baseball as a Road to God written by John Sexton. This book was released on 2014-03-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying to the secular activity of baseball a form of inquiry usually reserved for the study of religion, Sexton explores common ground between the game and what we all recognize as religion: sacred places and time, faith and doubt, blessings and curses, and more.

Watching Baseball

2005-03 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2005-03
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Watching Baseball by : Jerry Remy

Download or read book Watching Baseball written by Jerry Remy. This book was released on 2005-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the game within the game by All-Star second baseman andRed Sox broadcaster Remy with professional journalist Sandler.

Standing for Reason

2019-04-16 Education
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Release : 2019-04-16
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 408/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Standing for Reason by : John Sexton

Download or read book Standing for Reason written by John Sexton. This book was released on 2019-04-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful case for the importance of universities as an antidote to the “secular dogmatism” that increasingly infects political discourse John Sexton argues that over six decades, a “secular dogmatism,” impenetrable by dialogue or reason, has come to dominate political discourse in America. Political positions, elevated to the status of doctrinal truths, now simply are “revealed.” Our leaders and our citizens suffer from an allergy to nuance and complexity, and the enterprise of thought is in danger. Sexton sees our universities, the engines of knowledge and stewards of thought, as the antidote, and he describes the policies university leaders must embrace if their institutions are to serve this role. Acknowledging the reality of our increasingly interconnected world—and drawing on his experience as president of New York University when it opened campuses in Abu Dhabi and Shanghai—Sexton advocates for “global network universities” as a core aspect of a new educational landscape and as the crucial foundation-blocks of an interlocking world characterized by “secular ecumenism.”

The Lords of the Realm

2011-07-27 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2011-07-27
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 42X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Lords of the Realm by : John Helyar

Download or read book The Lords of the Realm written by John Helyar. This book was released on 2011-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The ultimate chronicle of the games behind the game."—The New York Times Book Review Baseball has always inspired rhapsodic elegies on the glory of man and golden memories of wonderful times. But what you see on the field is only half the game. In this fascinating, colorful chronicle—based on hundreds of interviews and years of research and digging—John Helyar brings to vivid life the extraordinary people and dramatic events that shaped America's favorite pastime, from the dead-ball days at the turn of the century through the great strike of 1994. Witness zealous Judge Landis banish eight players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, after the infamous "Black Sox" scandal; the flamboyant A's owner Charlie Finley wheel and deal his star players, Vida Blue and Rollie Fingers, like a deck of cards; the hysterical bidding war of coveted free agent Catfish Hunter; the chain-smoking romantic, A. Bartlett Giamatti, locking horns with Pete Rose during his gambling days of summer; and much more. Praise for The Lords of the Realm "A must-read for baseball fans . . . reads like a suspense novel."—Kirkus Reviews "Refreshingly hard-headed . . . the only book you'll need to read on the subject."—Newsday "Lots of stories . . . well told, amusing . . . edifying."—The Washington Post

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