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The silent dialogue : Zen letters to a Trappist abbot / David G. Hackett.
Van Pelt Library BQ9269.4.C35 H33 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hackett, David G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church.
- Zen Buddhism--Relations--Catholic Church.
- Zen Buddhism.
- Catholic Church--Relations--Zen Buddhism.
- Spiritual life--Zen Buddhism.
- Spiritual life.
- Spiritual life--Catholic Church.
- Relations.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Continuum, 1996.
- Summary:
- In August 1974, following conversion to the Catholic faith while living in a Trappist monastery, David Hackett set out on a two-year journey to Japan and Southeast Asia. Hackett became a Catholic through Zen meditation and an understanding of Catholicism acquired by the patient guidance of a Trappist monk. Yet baptism marked the beginning of a new inquiry. What was the relationship between Buddhism and Catholicism? And how could Zen meditation best be employed to deepen Christian faith? Asking these questions, Hackett began a journey which led to meetings and meditations with Catholic priests and Zen masters sympathetic to Catholicism. The letters which he sent to Father Thomas Keating - one of the founders of the Contemplative Prayer movement - chronicle Hackett's changing experience with Zen meditation and Christianity.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0826407803
- OCLC:
- 35209274
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