From the Back Cover:
Winner 2012 Montaigne Medal, Eric Hoffer Award to the most thought-provoking titles each year.
"Transparencies of Eternity, Rubem Alves, Convivium Press - Alves' series of mediations covers a spectrum intellectual and spiritual pursuits that circle around the soul and the meaning of life. Other poets serve as launching points for discussion. The topics include the necessity for an abstract and incomprehensible God, finding the spirit in the simplest elements of earth, the paradox of Hell, the many forms of angels, the poetry of prayer, and others. The essays are at times personal and unique to Alves, but isn't the human experience driven through the prism of the self? In the end, it's not important that Alves answers life's fundamental questions or is even in alignment with your own thinking, only that he inspires you to explore your own existence and connectedness with life". - The U.S. Review of Books
"God is not a concept simply understood by many. 'Transparencies of Eternity' is scholarly prose and poetry from Ruben Alves, as his work studies the concept of God, faith, and the love that goes both ways, presented a study that presents much to ponder for readers and much to understand for those who want to more completely understand their world. 'Transparencies of Eternity' is a strong addition to religious studies collections, highly recommended." - Midwest Book Review
About the Author:
A pedagogue, poet and philosopher for all time, chronicler of everyday life, storyteller, essayist, theologian, academician, author of children books, psychoanalyst, Rubem Alves is one of Brazil s most respected intellectuals. A prolific writer his bibliography to date includes more than fifty titles in different languages with a strong autobiographic bent, Rubem Alves is one of the most brilliant craftsmen of the Portuguese language. In his texts the plasticity of the language achieves varying forms and expressions of rare and always surprising uniqueness. Rubem Alves is passionate about life, a compulsive enjoyer of life. He has not written yet all the books he has in his thoughts. Neither has he felt, loved, and played enough, or answered all the letters and messages of his friends. He has not told his grandchildren all the stories that they might imagine, nor experienced all the absences and saudades. Neither has he beheld all the mysteries of the world and of himself... Many of those who admire him believe that he has a secret pact with eternity. Rubem denies that. Eternity requires patience, and he is inveterately impatient. So much so (he says) that if God had asked for his advice the world would certainly be much better (Ademar Ferreira dos Santos).
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