Sacred Time and the Search for Meaning

March 1, 2003
Fiction writer and essayist Eberle (English, Aquinas Coll.; The Geography of Nowhere) here presents a long contemplation on time and how human beings have attempted to measure and control it, especially as reflected in religious practice. Eberle's expository prose has a clear and simple style that easily carries the reader through many ideas and perceptions. The material Eberle includes on our efforts to improve timekeeping from the Middle Ages on has been treated more thoroughly elsewhere-since the approach of the millennium a few years ago there has been no shortage of books on the subject-but the latter chapters, in which he offers his own reflections on how to alter our relationship with time and to discover both personal and communal sacred time, are at once touching and profound. Recommended for most collections.

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