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Lost Christianity : a journey of rediscovery / Jacob Needleman.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Needleman, Jacob.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christianity--Essence, genius, nature.
- Christianity.
- Christianity--20th century.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Spirituality.
- Needleman, Jacob.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- xii, 228 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2003.
- Summary:
- Unavailable for several years, "Lost Christianity" is a profound reexamination of the essence of Christian thought and faith. Philosopher and bestselling author Jacob Needleman has sought out the ancient texts and modern practitioners of essential Christianity, whose message speaks directly to contemporary seekers.
- Contents:
- The "Old Religions" 1
- What Are Christians Looking For? 2
- A "Christian Monk" 5
- Father Sylvan 7
- Part 1 Three Christians
- Chapter 2 Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh 15
- Credentials 15
- The Two Streams 17
- Questions Without Answers 19
- "Occult" Christianity 21
- The Emotion of a Christian 23
- A Demand 25
- Athens 28
- Vulnerability 30
- The Contact of Forces 33
- The Origin of Spiritual Exercises 35
- Seeing and Gnosis; "Faith vs. Reason" 37
- New Emotion, New Thought 41
- Chapter 3 Father Vincent 44
- What Is a Priest? 44
- Spiritual Psychology 49
- Psychology and Scale 52
- The Theory and Practice of the Search 54
- A Game of Cards 55
- Seeing Father Vincent 58
- "Acornology" 59
- Freud and Human Possibility 60
- The Natural Attraction to Truth 62
- Conversation in Two Worlds 66
- The Life and Search of Father Vincent 70
- Chapter 4 From the Journal of Father Sylvan 79
- Part 2 The Lost Doctrine of the Soul
- Chapter 5 Christianity and Eastern Meditation 107
- Christianity and Buddhism 107
- Thomas Merton 113
- Intermediate Christianity 117
- Chapter 6 St. Joseph's Abbey 124
- The Primal Christian Act 124
- Father Thomas Keating 126
- Contemplation as Knowledge 126
- The "Middle" and Its Neglect 127
- Knowledge and Love 129
- The Fragmentation of Contemplative Prayer 130
- The Scale of History 131
- The Centering Prayer 132
- Apatheia, or Emotional Freedom 136
- The Location of Freedom 139
- What Does the Church Really Want? 140
- Chapter 7 A Search for Conscious Christianity 145
- Jesuit Spirituality 145
- Attention and Virtue 151
- The Attention of the Heart 155
- Attention as Prayer 162
- Chapter 8 The Soul: Intermediate Being 166
- Six Points About the Soul 166
- Gurdjieff 169
- Search as the Transforming Force 171
- The Appearance and Disappearance of the Soul 175
- Chapter 9 The Soul in the Two Histories 178
- Two Histories; Two Doctrines 178
- The Intermediate in Hinduism 179
- Micro-monotheism 181
- The Intermediate in Buddhism 183
- The Language of the Second History 187
- The Soul Is Not the "Inner Being" 190
- The Origin of "Heresy" 193
- Gnosis Is Not Gnosticism 195
- The doctrine of the alien God 196
- Cosmic dualism 200
- The two races of men 203
- "Practical Instructions" 207
- A Fateful Ambiguity 213
- Conclusion: The Lost Religion of Love 214.
- Notes:
- Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1980. With new pref. and index.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1585422533
- 9781585422531
- OCLC:
- 52041077
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