Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing: Essays
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Overview
In Glimpses of Another Land, Eric Miller takes the reader across the American landscape in quest of insight into our times. For those facing challenges and choices from all sides, Miller offers not analysis so much as reorientation--the kind of sharpened vision that redirects movement. An age featuring 9/11 as its defining moment surely requires probing reflection and judgment. Here Eric Miller, with an alert eye and keen voice, provides both.
”Eric Miller is one of the most thoughtful and graceful writers
today--a combination of intelligence, humility, and faithful
insight. I try to read everything he writes. What a gift to have so
many of his essays collected in one place!"
--Mark Galli, senior managing editor of Christianity
Today
“Whether he writes about the Amish, popular Christian music, or the
Pittsburgh Steelers, Eric Miller’s prose sings with grace, passion,
wit, Pennsylvania patriotism, and, suffusing it all, a sense of
hope. His is an America of neighbors, faith, and peace, not vacuous
pop culture and political cant. In the tradition of Christopher
Lasch and Wendell Berry, Eric Miller illumines for us a way back
home."
--Bill Kauffman, author of Ain’t My America
"It’s fitting that Eric Miller begins this book by talking about
hope and longing. Grounded in a specific time and place, clear-eyed
about our troubles, these essays offer bright glimpses of another
land."
--John Wilson, editor of Books & Culture
"Eric Miller is quickly becoming one of the best evangelical
cultural critics at work among us today. Always timely, never
trendy, usually salty, never cynical, his essays have a winsome way
of delighting us in the good, drawing us out of ourselves in
longing for a better, more humane and divine mode of living in the
world . . . May his tribe increase and find a way of loving the
rest of us in. May they help us keep our hope alive."
--Douglas A. Sweeney, author of The American Evangelical
Story
"These essays invite a new generation to appreciate an older legacy
of post-partisan political hope. Here is a voice that echoes with
Burke, Chesterton, Berry, and above all, Christopher Lasch.
Miller’s pointed insights and intimate prose are invitations to
both reflection and delight."
--James K. A. Smith, author of The Devil Reads Derrida
"Eric Miller is my favorite Christian cultural critic. I have been
absorbing his writings for over a decade, and they never fail to
inspire me with hope for something better, something real. If you
haven’t read him, you must. These essays will challenge you to
think differently about what it means to be a human being in this
world."
--John Fea, author of The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Product Details
- Title : Glimpses of Another Land: Political Hopes, Spiritual Longing: Essays
- Author: Miller, Eric
- Publisher: Cascade Books
- Publication Date: 2012
- ISBN: 9781621894155
Eric Miller is Professor of American History at Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch (2010) and coeditor of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (2010).