Baseball as a Road to God: Seeing Beyond the Game
- ISBN-10
- 1101609737
- ISBN-13
- 9781101609736
- Category
- Sports & Recreation
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-07
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Authors
- Thomas Oliphant, John Sexton, Peter J. Schwartz
Description
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.
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