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SUMMARY:Presenting Thoreau's God: When Nature Becomes Church
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with local author Richard Higgins
 about his new book\, Thoreau’s God\, which explores Henry David
 Thoreau’s spirituality\, his belief in our innate spiritual abilities\,
 his perception of God in nature\, and his sense of the sacred in the
 ordinary.\n\nThoreau was a harsh critic of “respectable” Christianity
 in his day\, but he was religious to the bone and had a profound sense of
 the holy. Richard presents Thoreau as a religious thinker who tried to
 separate the universal religious impulse from its 19th-century
 institutional context. In essence\, Thoreau was a mystic who\, while firmly
 moored to the earth\, was on a quest to commune with a divine mystery that
 was both immanent in the natural world and transcendent. He called this
 illimitable presence many names\, but he often called it God. Thoreau’s
 eclectic\, experiential spirituality is resonating with spiritual seekers
 in America today.\n\nRichard Higgins is a former staff writer at the
 Boston Globe and the author or editor of four books\, including Thoreau
 and the Language of Trees. His articles\, essays\, and reviews have
 appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Christian Century\, and
 American Scholar.
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CATEGORIES:Books, Reading, Writing,Discussion Group
LOCATION:The First Parish Church in Weston\, 349 Boston Post Road\,
 Weston\, Massachusetts\, 02493\, United States
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