The Way of Suffering

by Miller, Jerome A.

• ISBN13: 9780878404667
• ISBN10: 087840466X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-05-01
• Publisher: Georgetown Univ Pr

Summary

This book can best be described as an extended meditation on suffering, phenomenological in method and dialectical in point of view. The angle the author takes is that of moral self-examination rather than conventional scholarly inquiry, and his aim is to think through and evaluate a fundamental claim of our culture, from Aeschylus to Solzhenitsyn, that suffering is the greatest spiritual teacher.

Table of Contents

A Word on Mapmaking	p. ix
Point of Departure	p. 1
The Closed Home: Ordinary Existence as the Will to Control	p. 7
The Open Home: Generosity as the Welcoming of Strangers	p. 21
Beginning the Journey: The Experience of Dislocation and Homelessness	p. 43
Embracing Abysses: Heroism and the Will to Greatness	p. 73
Vicissitudes of Shame	p. 105
Prostration	p. 129
Epilogue: The End of All Arriving	p. 177
Notes	p. 189
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