Green Man, Earth Angel: The Prophetic Tradition and the Battle for the Soul of the World (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)
Green Man, Earth Angelexplores the central role of  imagination for understanding the place of humans in the cosmos. Tom  Cheetham suggests that lives can only be completely whole if human beings  come to recognize that the human and natural worlds are part of a vast  living network and that the material and spiritual worlds are deeply  interconnected. Central to this reimagining is an examination of the place  of language in human life and art and in the worldview that the prophetic  religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--presuppose. If human language  is experienced only as a subset of a vastly more-than-human whole, then it  is not only humans who speak, but also God and the world with all its  creatures. If humans' internal poetry and creative imaginations are part of  a greater conversation, then language can have the vital power to transform  the human soul, and the soul of the world itself."...a passionate cry for the reclamation of the imaginal realm denied by  the dualistic cosmologies of the Abrahamic religions--Judaism,  Christianity, and Islam ...Green Man, Earth Angelis a very  engaging read. Cheetham ... brings ... much-needed attention to the  ground-breaking work of Henri Corbin in the field of Sufism and provides  throughout ... a learned and cogent exposition of Islamic esoteric thought  in the work of Ibn 'Arabi." --Esoterica"This book speaks trenchantly to themes that I have returned to time and  again in my writings and throws new light on them. It is a very important  addition to the ongoing discussion of where we are in human history." --  Huston Smith"Tom Cheetham has written a remarkable book that has the power of shifting  our way of imagining the world ... Cheetham is one of the most courageous  thinkers I have ever read ... I hope ... you enter into a study of a work  that certainly does not belong to the world of throwaway books. This book  requires slow reading, for as you read these living words you are  undergoing a transformation. At the end of reading, the world will not be  the same." -- from the Foreword by Robert Sardello"Cheetham gives a very good overview of the many problems of scientific  rationalism as they connect to monotheism and Christian teleological  thinking. In contrast, he offers a new interpretation of ecology that is  aesthetic and soulful, based on the writings of Henry Corbin." -- Lee  Irwin, author ofAwakening to Spirit: On Life, Illumination, and  Being--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.