Summary
Rusmir Mahmutćehajić: From Jordan
On unity, evangelism and return
In the book From Jordan: on unity, evangelism and return, the intertwining of three perspectives, philosophical, theological and literary, is recognizable. Pointing to the holy river Jordan, which flows from the snowy heights of Hermon into the depths of the Dead Sea, the author reminds us of the distinction of man from the most beautiful erection to the lowest lowness, symbolically marked by the bottom of the holy valley of Beka and Mount Zion and by earth and sky, body and spirit.
In this course of the river from north to south, as the author of the book interprets, all human possibilities are gathered - both ascent or return, and descent or distance, and of crossing or joining the separated...
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