Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game, Paperback
Descriere
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.
Despre autor
John Edward Sexton este un savant juridic american. El este profesor de drept Benjamin F. Butler la Universitatea din New York, unde predă la facultatea de drept și la colegiile universitare ale NYU. Sexton a fost al cincisprezecelea președinte al NYU, din 2002 până în 2015.
