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Reports From Above Ground
By Mary D. Edwards Foster
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Imagine trying to explain to someone who lived three hundred years ago what it is like to be alive today. A daunting task, and yet that is exactly what Mary D. Edwards Foster has achieved in this series of “reports” to her ancestor, the eminent theologian Jonathan Edwards.
Reports from Above Ground, the first volume in a series, can be enjoyed on a number of levels. It represents a thoughtful review of a lifetime of reading from Aristotle to Ann Landers, and offers insight into the works of the world’s greatest thinkers, writers, artists, scientists, theologians, including Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Melville; Darwin, Einstein, Lewis Thomas; William James, Kiekegaard; Chomsky, Langer; Pagels—to name just a few.
One of the most delightful features of the book is a glossary at the end of each chapter designed to translate the language and minutiae of everyday life in the Twenty-first Century into terms Jonathan Edwards would understand. The reader is thus treated to definitions of such things as bubble gum, bar codes, and computers, as well as acid rain, genetics, and jazz.
For anyone who would love to read all of the world’s great books but lacks the time, Reports from Above Ground is the next best thing.
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