Bibliograph

Just Traveling, God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road, Jaco J. Hamman

Type

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Just Traveling, God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road, Jaco J. Hamman

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Just Traveling

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jaco J. Hamman

Sub title

God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road

Summary

Just Traveling celebrates overcoming distance and seeking difference as defining human traits. Following the scriptural witness of God as the Earthroamer, the book explores the liminal qualities of traveling through six movements: anticipating, leaving, surrendering, meeting, caring, and returning. To travel is to move at the speed of being present to one's experiences, bridging distance and difference through acts of care. Drawing on personal experience, as well as, the wisdom of theology, anthropology, psychology, philosophy, and cultural studies, Hamman reimagines travel in a welcoming and beautiful, yet also complex and troubled world. Whether leaving home serves our wanderlust and curiosity or has personal or spiritual purposes; whether we travel a few miles or cover vast distances, we travel best when we contribute to human flourishing. Care-the compassionate reaching out to someone or something-is the practice that allows one to travel differently. The spirituality of roads is filled with hopeful restorative potential, and life is best lived with the Earthroamer

Target audience

adult

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