Annette M. Holba

Encounters in Thought

Philosophy

“In Encounters in Thought: Beyond Instrumental Reason, Aaron K. Kerr interrogates the effects of contemporary technological culture on how humans think. Stating that we have settled into a pattern of ‘thinking more and more about less and less,’ Kerr asks us to rinse our mind with genuine practices of openness, wonder, receptivity, and contemplation. Kerr provides a rigorous philosophical meditation on the significance of water to human life and an example of contemplative inquiry praxis.”

Of Prayers and Tears

Theology

“In Of Prayers and Tears, Saitya Brata Das presents a discourse on eschatology. A revelation of his thought over time, these essays are about a new, coming, redeemed world—a revelation toward the coming of God himself. This collection is needed especially at this historical moment that is rife with unsettling conflicts and melancholy because it provides an alternative vision—a revelation that announces an end of despair and a radical renewal of hope that awaits the coming of the ‘Holy itself.’”