City of the Good : : Nature, Religion, and the Ancient Search for What Is Right / / Michael Mayerfield Bell.
How we came to seek absolute good in religion and nature-and why that quest often leads us astrayPeople have long looked to nature and the divine as paths to the good. In this panoramic meditation on the harmonious life, Michael Mayerfeld Bell traces how these two paths came to be seen as separate f...
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