Way With A Face, The

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Tao. Derekh. Hodos. Marga. The good red road. Every people who ever lived has had a word for the Way. What if the Way the roads were all bending toward has a face? In The Way With a Face, Jahn Hooks walks the great paths of the world — the anointed stone and the lingam of light, the breath every language calls spirit, the cloud of unknowing and the cross at the center of the sacred hoop, the ankh and the empty tomb — asking at each horizon whether the genuine seeds of truth scattered among the nations might find their harvest in one place. Drawing on the Fathers — Justin and his seeds of the Word, Basil reading the pagans "like a bee," Maximus, Isaac the Syrian, Kallistos Ware — and on modern witnesses who walked between worlds without losing their footing, Thomas Merton and Bede Griffiths — he holds together what our age keeps tearing apart: a real generosity toward the longing in every tradition, and the unshaken confession that the Word became flesh, and that this one face is the measure of them all. Generous toward every real seed. Clear that the Creed remains the measure. Honest about mixed fruit. Rooted in the Fathers — and written by a man who came to that ancient faith by way of the very roads it measures.