{"product_id":"via-adorations-via-obliquities-9798993542539","title":"Via Adorations, Via Obliquities","description":"\u003cp\u003eVia Adorations, Via Obliquities: A Life \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein Love and Reflection\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eby Philip Hughes-Luing (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Memoir of Love, Loss, and Lifelong Devotion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross five decades of devotion, loss, and spiritual discovery, Philip Hughes-Luing chronicles a rare and unwavering current of love that endures through time, grief, and transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom youthful first love in rural Minnesota to the profound partnerships that shaped his life through the AIDS era and beyond, Via Adorations, Via Obliquities is both a tender memoir and a philosophical reflection on what it means to love without end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough journals, poetry, and meditations, Hughes-Luing gives voice to a generation of men whose stories of fidelity and faith too often went unspoken. His words illuminate how love, queer, sacred, and human, can transcend mortality itself. He survived the deaths of four men with whom he committed to share his life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for readers who have ever loved deeply, mourned profoundly, and found meaning in the mystery between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title, Via Adorations, Via Obliquities, conveys the overall theme of the book, a spiritual quest for the meaning of love despite coping with mortality. That theme is carried out in various ways. Book 1 chronicles the genesis of young love. Book 2 uses Canonical hours for the chapter titles. There are letters to pastors, interrogations of God, and struggles to understand spirituality with or without God. Book 3 is a Song of Songs, erotic and fun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Adoration refers to reverence that is carried out through words (hymns, psalms, poetry) and actions; it is how we demonstrate love and reverence. Via Adorations describes very direct experiences of love. Obliquity is deviation from a norm, and it is through this indirect route, this interrogation of the normal idea of God, love, and creativity that a resolution is reached.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip D. Hughes-Luing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/13\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798993542539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 338\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.70d","brand":"Philip Hughes-Luing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491467686069,"sku":"9798993542539","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_abbaa628-9171-4e20-8b0c-1ef56070695a.jpg?v=1777996521","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/via-adorations-via-obliquities-9798993542539","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}