- Hardcover: 171 pages
- Publisher: Bog Walk Press (26 Mar 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0970651112
- ISBN-13: 978-0970651112
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 12.2 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,980,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This book includes all of the following: spiritual quest, travel, memoir, history, theological reflection, cultural analysis, and personal introspection - all conveyed in an engaging, probing, and honest voice. It is a spiritual travel memoir with a palatable dose of Christian history, interlacing an account of a trip to three small islands (off Ireland, Scotland, and northern England) with the history of Celtic Christianity in those places, all in service of an ongoing meditation about the human yearning for meaning.Not an academic or devotional book, it seeks that particular kind of knowledge we call wisdom - practical knowledge about how to live rightly and well - and finds it among the men and women who lived long ago in these remote places. This is the story of a reluctant pilgrimage, taken by a man with modern questions and suspicions about sacred places, who nonetheless returns from these tiny islands with a better understanding of how to live in today's confused, materialistic, care-worn world.
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Every Day Pilgrims, 6 July 2005
By Rachael Freed - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands (Hardcover)
Although the sacred places Taylor shares with us are moving, it is his personal honesty, humility and his wry humor that make sacredness and pilgrimage, commitment and faith, accessible. I am grateful to the author for voicing the questions and the doubts that I have as he (and I and many others) try to live our lives in ways that keep us awake to the wonders and blessings of our world in the midst of what often seems hopeless.
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Readable, interesting, and inspiring, 14 Mar 2006
By Roy M. Pitkin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands (Hardcover)
I've visited all three of these places and, at least for me, Taylor has captured a good bit of their magic. His writing is easy to read and entertaining and leavened with just the right touch of humor.
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The testimony of his spiritual quest and journey toward understanding, 6 July 2005
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: In Search of Sacred Places: Looking for Wisdom on Celtic Holy Islands (Hardcover)
Literature and writing professor Daniel Taylor presents In Search Of Sacred Places, the testimony of his spiritual quest and journey toward understanding in his experience among islands once considered holy to the ancient Celts. Part history, part memoir, part travelogue, part spiritual quest, and part personal introspection, In Search Of Sacred Places ponders both the unknowable and the mundane, and brims with the author's abiding insights and wonder. A handful of black-and-white photographs illustrate this deeply respectful and spiritual account.
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