Loneliness and Revelation: A Study of the Sacred

Everyone experiences loneliness in their lives. Yet most people are secretly afraid of it. Research has also shown that many popular self-help methods to cope with loneliness actually make people feel worse than they already do. Yet loneliness is not simply a social phenomenon. Rather, it is an existential condition of life. So you can't turn to other people, or true love, for a solution. Nor can you turn to God, for God is probably lonelier than you are! This book offers a new understanding of the idea of Revelation, which gives spiritual significance to the arts, human relationships, love, and indeed to loneliness itself.