One with the Father: A Novel of Mysticism, Heresy, and Rebellion in the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Evanoff, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1666771112 ISBN 13: 9781666771114

Publisher: Resource Publications (CA), 2023

Synopsis

When Justin escapes the comfortable medieval estate where his overbearing father has kept him sheltered his whole life, hot in pursuit of the servant girl he has fallen in love with, he finds himself caught up in a social order torn between extremes of wealth and poverty, feudal hierarchy and peasant revolts, ecclesiastical corruption and monastic piety, gross injustices and boundless mercy. The mid-fourteenth century was a time not only of burgeoning towns, majestic cathedrals, and nascent universities, but also of debauchery and violence, the Black Death and Inquisition, torture and ordeals. In his encounters with noblemen and peasants, alchemists and hermits, monks and heretics, knights and revolutionaries, prostitutes and miscreants from the medieval underworld, Justin comes to realize that he is entirely on his own as he confronts his personal moral failings and struggles to find faith in a world where God no longer seems to exist.

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About the Author

Richard Evanoff is professor of intercultural communication at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. He holds a PhD in philosophy from Lancaster University in the UK and is the author of numerous publications in intercultural ethics and environmental ethics, including the book Bioregionalism and Global Ethics(2011). He is particularly interested in crosscultural dialogue on Western and Asian philosophy and religion, and is also active in literary circles in Tokyo as a poet, writer, and editor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Publication date: 2023
• ISBN 10: 1666771112
• ISBN 13: 9781666771114
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 452