The Faithful Garden: An Ecumenical Florilegium
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
A garden has long been humanity's most potent symbol of the sacred, and The Faithful Garden: An Ecumenical Florilegium gathers that rich tradition into one luminous collection, drawing together flowers, plants, and their spiritual meanings from across the world's great religious traditions. Frances Kelly presents a carefully curated anthology — a true florilegium in the classical sense — that chronicles the deep and abiding relationship between the natural world and the human soul, weaving together verse, prose, and botanical lore into a seamless tapestry of faith and wonder. Graced with the exquisite pen-and-ink illustrations of Alexandra Penny-Dowie, whose delicate draftsmanship evokes the charm of a timeless Victorian garden, the work carries an aesthetic reverence that mirrors its spiritual intent. Kelly's ecumenical scope is genuinely ambitious, reaching across Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Eastern traditions to argue that the garden is a universal language of the divine. The result is a volume that is at once a work of scholarship, devotion, and visual delight — one that leaves the reader wondering which bloom, in which sacred text, might yet hold an undiscovered truth.
Author: Frances Kelly
Format: Hardback
Published: 1986, Methuen Australia
Genre: Botany
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
A garden has long been humanity's most potent symbol of the sacred, and The Faithful Garden: An Ecumenical Florilegium gathers that rich tradition into one luminous collection, drawing together flowers, plants, and their spiritual meanings from across the world's great religious traditions. Frances Kelly presents a carefully curated anthology — a true florilegium in the classical sense — that chronicles the deep and abiding relationship between the natural world and the human soul, weaving together verse, prose, and botanical lore into a seamless tapestry of faith and wonder. Graced with the exquisite pen-and-ink illustrations of Alexandra Penny-Dowie, whose delicate draftsmanship evokes the charm of a timeless Victorian garden, the work carries an aesthetic reverence that mirrors its spiritual intent. Kelly's ecumenical scope is genuinely ambitious, reaching across Christian, Jewish, Islamic, and Eastern traditions to argue that the garden is a universal language of the divine. The result is a volume that is at once a work of scholarship, devotion, and visual delight — one that leaves the reader wondering which bloom, in which sacred text, might yet hold an undiscovered truth.