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Paperback Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening Book

ISBN: 0802845886

ISBN13: 9780802845887

Inheriting Paradise: Meditations on Gardening

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The garden is a personal place of retreat and delight and labor for many people. Gardening helps us collect ourselves, much as praying does. For rich and poor- it makes no difference- a garden is a place where body and soul are in harmony. In Inheriting Paradise Vigen Guroian offers an abundant vision of the spiritual life found in the cultivation of God's good creation. Capturing the earthiness and sacramental character of the Christian faith, these...

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The Unity of Creation and Redemption

In this remarkable little book, Guroian has exemplified the way in which Orthodox Christian theology/spirituality enables one to have spectacular insight into the nature of creaturely life in the created world. His reflections appropriate the heart of Orthodox thought to gardening: that redemption is the union of God with the whole cosmos. This is a done in a poetic and contemplative way that is a joy to read.

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