《A Place of Healing for the Soul》是一本圖書,作者是Peter France
基本介紹
- 外文名:A Place of Healing for the Soul
- 作者:Peter France
- 出版時間:2003年12月
- 頁數:240 頁
- ISBN:9780802140609
- 定價:101.00 元
內容簡介
The tiny, arid Greek island of Patmos is one of the most sacred places in the Christian world, and a place of bewitching power, where people come for a brief summer visit and end up returning, year after year, for the rest of their lives. In A Place of Healing for the Soul, BBC commentator Peter France — who arrived on the island a hardened skeptic — tells how he came to change...(展開全部) The tiny, arid Greek island of Patmos is one of the most sacred places in the Christian world, and a place of bewitching power, where people come for a brief summer visit and end up returning, year after year, for the rest of their lives. In A Place of Healing for the Soul, BBC commentator Peter France — who arrived on the island a hardened skeptic — tells how he came to change his life perspective. Learning from the island s gregarious inhabitants and its religious eccentrics-hermits, ascetics, monks, and nuns — he discovered the pleasure and security of living simply and doing without, in a timeless realm where history, myth, and spirituality are endlessly alive.