Description
“What’s the relevance of traditional religion on the earth described by latest science? Is scientific knowledge a satisfactory ground for the religious experience? Can the language of traditional religion constitute an accurately up to date language of praise?”
―from Honey from Stone
Framing his meditations as a Book of Hours, scientist Chet Raymo exercises the languages of theology and science to express the majesty of Ireland’s remote Dingle Peninsula. As he wanders the land year upon year, Raymo gathers the revelations embedded within the geological and cultural history of this wild and ancient place. “When I referred to as out for the Absolute, I used to be answered by the wind,” Raymo writes. “If it was once God’s voice within the wind, then I heard it.”
In poetic prose grounded in a mind trained to discover fact, Honey from Stone enters the wonder of the material world on the lookout for our deepest nature.