The search for transcendence: a theological analysis of nontheological attempts to define transcendence

Author:

Johnson, William A.

Place of Publication:

New York

Publisher:

Harper & Row

Publication Date:

1974

ISBN / SBN / ISSN:

06-090355-4

Media Type:

Print (Non-Serial)

Media Sub-type:

Book

LoC Call Number:

BD 362 .J63 1974

Accession Number:

002179

Keyword Subject Headings:

Transcendence (Philosophy)
Transcendence of God

“Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is hidden, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. … When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.”

Memories, Dreams, Reflections, page 4