{"product_id":"9780994418449","title":"Credo and Twelve Poems","description":"A Cosmological Manifesto\u003cp\u003eThis book consists of an essay, a credo, twelve poems and 205 aphorisms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe essay provides a personal, scholarly reflection on where Paul Monk started, forty years ago, when he left his ancestral religion behind and where he was at the point when this book was being composed. \u003cbr\u003eThe poems are a private articulation of felt life and a set of attempts to generate a lifeworld of his own. The aphorisms are improvisations on the themes opened up by the verse and are intended to define or point to something, a sketch of reality and meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twenty line Credo, which begins: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI believe that all deities are idols of the mind,\u003cbr\u003eThat blood sacrifices to them are an abomination,\u003cbr\u003eThat dogmas are obstacles to enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esums up a life's study and reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book constitutes a position, but not an argument.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Echo Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023526772976,"sku":"9780994418449","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780994418449_p0.jpg?v=1763899939","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780994418449","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}