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Every Word Is A Bird We Teach To Sing : Encounters With The Mysteries & Meanings Of Language
Paperback Edition: 1
As an autistic savant, Tammet is famous for his ability to visualise numbers as complex shapes, colours and textures and to perceive long sequences of digits as landscapes in his mind. But how does he perceive love and relationships...and religion? Described by the US's Entertainment
Weekly as having 'the most remarkable mind on the planet', autistic savant Daniel Tammet surprises many when he tells them that he is a Christian. The shock, it seems, arises from the widespread conception that reason and religion don't mix and that high intelligence and orthodox faith are somehow incompatible. But for Tammet, though the world is strange it is also beautiful and provides ample evidence for the possibility of God's existence; special moments becoming 'fragments of heaven', feeding our spiritual imagination and reminding us that our world is richly complex and fascinating. Interspersed with biographical accounts of his journey to faith from an atheistic adolescence to his conversion to Christianity five years ago, this explains the reasons for and nature of Tammet's faith and life as a believer.
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Pages : 274
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date : 2017-08-29
Subjects: Non-fiction, Education / Language / ESOL