Robert Wild

As a result of the author’s own spiritual and intellectual journey he came to believe that there was something missing in our traditional understanding of the nature of God. In the Scriptures God is presented as clothed with real emotions and feelings such as anger, jealousy, love, compassion, and even a change of purpose and heart. In short, God is presented there as really being influenced and affected by our actions and by the events of history. This book traces this teaching on the feelings of God from the Scriptures to the third century. It tries to show that the gradual loss of these feelings of God in Christian teaching was due to an overemphasis on rational, philosophical knowledge. Certain trends in psychology, the study of language, and philosophy call for a reexamination of this question. The author believes that a clarification of this aspect of God is extremely important and significant for our spiritual life.

Is There Pathos in God?

Who I Will Be

Simon Patrick

A Friendly Debate Between a Conformist and a Non-conformist

Bas Verschuuren

Jeffrey McNeely

Gonzalo Oviedo

Sacred Natural Sites are the world's oldest protected places. This book focuses on a wide spread of both iconic and lesser known examples such as sacred groves of the Western Ghats (India), Sagarmatha /Chomolongma (Mt Everest, Nepal, Tibet - and China), the Golden Mountains of Altai (Russia), Holy Island of Lindisfarne (UK) and the sacred lakes of the Niger Delta (Nigeria). The book illustrates that sacred natural sites, although often under threat, exist within and outside formally recognised protected areas, heritage sites. Sacred natural sites may well be some of the last strongholds for building resilient networks of connected landscapes. They also form important nodes for maintaining a dynamic socio-cultural fabric in the face of global change. The diverse authors bridge the gap between approaches to the conservation of cultural and biological diversity by taking into account cultural and spiritual values together with the socio-economic interests of the custodian communities and other relevant stakeholders.

Conserving Nature and Culture

Sacred Natural Sites

We need a new kind of mystic, writes Fr. Robert Wild; and in The Tumbler of God, he presents a spiritual portrait of G.K. Chesterton that convincingly shows why he is precisely the kind of new mystic we need. Chesterton s mysticism was grounded in an experiential knowledge that existence is a gift from God, and that the only response is a spirituality of gratitude and praise for the unveiled beauty of creation. "What was his secret ? It was to love the splendor of the real, and to live in adulthood the innocence and wonder of the child who sees everything for the first time. The Gospel tells us we must become again like little children in order to enter the kingdom. Chesterton shows us how. One of the best books I have ever read on Chesterton. --Dale Ahlquist A book that speaks openly of what is, in the end, the most important thing about him: his friendship with God. --Stratford Caldecott A ground-breaking examination of G.K. Chesterton. --Mark Sebanc Robert Wild s fascinating perspective is a welcome addition to the enlivening field of Chestertonian studies. --Chris Chan An exploration, made with deep and affectionate familiarity with GKC s writings, of what is meant by the word mystic . --Francis Phillips, The Catholic Herald

Chesterton as Mystic

The Tumbler of God

Water in the Cultic Worship of Isis and Sarapis

Robert Wild

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