The Patriarch
eBook - ePub

The Patriarch

Essays from the Middle

  1. 158 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Patriarch

Essays from the Middle

About this book

In this spiritual memoir, Joshua Rice explores the spaces of middle age through the lenses of the Bible, long-distance running, and modern psychology. Our larger-than-life companion is Abraham and his rabbinic interpreters--beloved as no other in the Jewish tradition. Always on the move, always in-between, never quite arriving, the great patriarch of Genesis creates space for making peace with the past, for pushing new limits, and for sprinting headlong into the second half of life.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Glossary
  4. Introduction
  5. Chapter 1: The Middle: Home By Another Way
  6. Chapter 2: Reliances: The Middle Form
  7. Chapter 3: Heresies: The Lies I Have Believed
  8. Chapter 4: Loneliness: Running Out of No-Man’s Land
  9. Chapter 5: Forgiveness: The Medicine of the Middle
  10. Chapter 6: Blessing: Middle Words
  11. Chapter 7: Ecstasy: Monks and the Middle
  12. Chapter 8: Doubts: Doorways of the Middle
  13. Chapter 9: Pain: Entering the Holy
  14. Chapter 10: Laughter: Holy Irreverence
  15. Chapter 11: Individuation: Scrapping in the Middle
  16. Chapter 12: Loss: The Trail to Newness
  17. Chapter 13: Grace: Reality in the Middle
  18. Chapter 14: Marriage: Rooting Out the Tumors
  19. Chapter 15: Testing: Losing Our Narratives
  20. Chapter 16: Providence: Rams Along the Winding Way
  21. Chapter 17: Intimacy: Running Away
  22. Chapter 18: Parenting: Learning to Let Go
  23. Chapter 19: Restarting: Generativity vs. Stagnation
  24. Chapter 20: Death: Training with the Gladiators
  25. Epilogue
  26. Bibliography