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The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism

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 | #938343 in Books |  Fordham University Press |  1989-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  5.40 x.60 x8.40l,.50 | File type: PDF | 202 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Learning from Buddhism to recover contemplative Christianity|By Joyce|Though this is not a recent book, it provides excellent context for overcoming rationalism. Johnston speaks of an impoverished, dehumanized West, rich in technology but poor in intuition, sick from lack of mysticism. He sees Western Christians turning to Zen because of a dissatisfaction with a Christianity| |"This is an important book, bridging the much-debated 'mysticism' gap between East and West..." -- Library Journal|About the Author||William Johnston S.J., an Irish priest who teaches at Sophia University in Tokyo,

It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, principles, and ideals are being questioned and rejected, has turned to an interest in the age-old practice of the East - the quest for inner peace and tranquility as found in the profoundly moving experience of contemplation after the method of Zen Buddhism. In this deeply sympathetic study, the author compares the principles and th...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Still Point: Reflections on Zen and Christian Mysticism   |  William Johnston. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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