Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
Sexton, John; Oliphant, Thomas; Schwartz, Peter J.
ISBN 10: 1592408648 ISBN 13: 9781592408641
Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 2014
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Synopsis:
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.
About the Author: 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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Title: Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 2014
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good