{"product_id":"book-npej","title":"Liturgies of the Wild","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom \"one of the greatest storytellers we have\" (Robert Bly) comes an urgent invitation to allow the oldest stories-and the Greatest Story-to reshape our own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere's an old Irish belief that if you aren't wrapped in a cloak of story, you will be unprepared for what the world will hurl at you. You remain adolescent at just the moment that a culture worth its salt requires you to become a real, grown, human being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eLiturgies of the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed mythographer, storyteller, and Christian thinker Martin Shaw argues that we live in a myth-impoverished age and that such poverty has left us vulnerable to stories that may not wish us well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on the \"ancient technologies\" of myths and initiatory rites, Shaw provides a road to wholeness, maturity, and connection. He teaches us to read a myth the way it wants to be read, provides vivid retellings of tales powerful enough to carry you through life's travails, and shows you how to gather and reshape your own thrown-away stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost vividly, he shares how these ancient technologies led him unexpectedly to Christ, \"the True Myth,\" by way of a thirty-year journey and a 101-night vigil in a Dartmoor forest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining scholarly erudition with nimble storytelling in the tradition of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien, \u003cem\u003eLiturgies of the Wild\u003c\/em\u003e is a thrilling counsel of resistance and delight in the face of many modern monsters.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50354007212336,"sku":"BDnpej","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/npej-Square-cover.jpg?v=1771664554","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-npej","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}