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The Church of the Poor Devil: Reflections on a Riverboat Voyage and a Spiritual Journey

The Church of the Poor Devil: Reflections on a Riverboat Voyage and a Spiritual Journey

Dunne, John S.

Paperback

General ChristianityGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0268007462
ISBN13: 9780268007461
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Oct 1 1983
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.42 Depth: 8.42
Language: English

This powerful exploration of spiritual longing is the story of two parallel journeys. One is the author's account of his five-day riverboat trip up the Amazon and his discovery of the tiny Church of the Poor Devil, whose members revealed a spiritual wealth in the midst of abject poverty.

The other is Dunne's own spiritual quest and his passing over from a personal religion concerned with the satisfaction of his individual needs to the religion of the poor. In sharing the life of the church's people and their transcendence of the misery of their human condition, Dunne experiences a greater awareness of the human essence, which redirects his relation of material needs and brings him to a oneness with humanity and himself. The story of this journey becomes a compelling metaphor for Christianity.

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