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Mystics and Zen Masters

By Thomas Merton

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| Paperback | 9780374520014

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Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. MertoContinue

Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness. Merton not only studied these religions from the outside but grasped them by empathy and living participation from within. "All these studies," wrote Merton, "are united by one central concern: to understand various ways in which men of different traditions have conceived the meaning and method of the 'way' which leads to the highest levels of religious or of metaphysical awareness."

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  • Is There Hope for Religion?

    Christian theology in the twentieth century has faced two crises and now faces a third. First, the presuppositions of liberal theology—primarily, that an ethical teacher, the “historical” Jesus, could be detached from the framework of eschatology and ... (read full critics)

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 320 Pages
  • Edition: Reissue
  • ISBN-10: 0374520011
  • ISBN-13: 9780374520014
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Pub date: Nov 29, 1999
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
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