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Title: Zen Catholicism by Dom Aelred Graham, Aelred Graham ISBN: 0-8245-1425-4 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: April, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: What the West can learn from the East
Comment: "What God tolerates we have no business to find intolerable."
"Zen Catholicism" is a very well-written "crossroads" type book. Certainly a must read for any Catholics that may feel other religions or denominations are "more spiritual". Other Christians can certainly learn a lot, if not more, from this type of theology as well.
Since Thomistic/Aristotelean thought has become outdated as far as academic philosophy is concerned, the Church has been in need of a paradigm shift to find a better philosophy to back up Catholic spirituality. Graham may well be along that road.
Rating: 4
Summary: Subtle & sophisticated Buddhist/Christian dialogue
Comment: This book is a fairly dense but well written exploration of how Zen might help Catholics "to realize more fully their own spiritual inheritance." Graham's take on Zen in relation to Catholicism is theologically astute and experientially grounded. Graham, who was a Benedictine monk, notes that he is not inviting readers "to embark on a daring theological adventure" (the book received an ecclesiastical imprimatur). Rather, he is inviting readers "to look into [their] own nature and that of the Church" and to consider Graham's suggestion that, at their existential depths, Zen and Catholicism share the same basic message. This book was first published in 1963, but I think it's still one of the best books relating Buddhism and Christianity.
Rating: 4
Summary: There is one Truth, but different paths to that Truth
Comment: Some people are born with faith and never lose it; some are born with it and lose it; others stray from God, only to find Him later by circuitous paths.
I was one of these, and "Zen Catholicism" represents a sort-of bridge between my two historical lines of thought: belief in Christ and belief in philosophy-atheism.
Not to say "Zen Catholicism" leans more towards the latter strain of thought; in fact, just the opposite: this book is quite conservative--without being close-minded--and was given an IMPRIMATUR in 1963 by Archbishop Francis Cardinal Spellman.
Nevertheless, this book blends two beautiful traditions in a way in which Catholics of all dispositions can appreciate. Treated as a philosophy Zen is quite beautiful: seeing things just as they are being an example.
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Title: Christian Zen by William Johnston ISBN: 0823218015 Publisher: Fordham University Press Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: The Place of Zen in Christian Life by Robert E. Kennedy ISBN: 0826409199 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Zen Teachings of Jesus by Kenneth S. Leong ISBN: 0824518837 Publisher: Crossroad 8th Avenue Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Zen for Christians: A Beginner's Guide by Kim Boykin, Gerald G. May ISBN: 0787963763 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer by Richard Rohr ISBN: 0824519957 Publisher: Crossroad/Herder & Herder Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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