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“douglas e christie”

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  • Thomas Merton and the Noonday Demon

    The Camaldoli Correspondence

    by Donald Grayston ...
    How did Thomas Merton become Thomas Merton? Starting out from any one of his earlier major life moments--wealthy orphan boy, big man on campus, fervent Roman Catholic convert, new and obedient monk--we find ourselves asking how by his life's end he had grown from who he was then into a transcultural and transreligious spiritual teacher read by millions. This book takes another such starting point: ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Insurmountable Darkness of Love

    Mysticism, Loss, and the Common Life

    by Douglas E. Christie ...
    The primary aim of this book is to reconsider the meaning of darkness within mystical and contemplative thought and practice--especially as the ground and source of love. The book examines how a sustained, critical attention to apophatic spiritual traditions can help us respond to the gaps, silences, and empty places that have become such a prominent feature of contemporary experience. ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Blue Sapphire of the Mind

    Notes for a Contemplative Ecology

    by Douglas E. Christie ...
    "There are no unsacred places," the poet Wendell Berry has written. "There are only sacred places and desecrated places." What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? To understand the work of seeing things as an utterly involving moral and spiritual ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

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    365 Readings and Meditations

    by Matthew Fox ...
    As Matthew Fox notes when an aging Albert Einstein was asked if he had any regrets he replied I wish I had read more of the mystics earlier in my life. The 365 writings in Christian Mystics represent a wide-ranging sampling of these readings for modern-day seekers of all faiths or no faith. Fox is uniquely qualified to comment on these profound sometimes startling often denounced insights. In 1998 ... Read more

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  • The World Is Made of Stories

    by David R. Loy ...
    In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell—about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it—become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar ... Read more

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  • The Dice Game of Shiva

    How Consciousness Creates the Universe

    by Richard Smoley ...
    In this fascinating book, Richard Smoley examines the roles God has played for us and reconciles them with what we today know through science and reason. In the process, he shows that consciousness is the underlying reality beneath everything in the universe.In one of Hinduism’s great myths, Shiva plays a dice game with his consort, Parvati, and loses consistently. If he is the greatest god, why ... Read more

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  • Silence and Beauty

    Hidden Faith Born of Suffering

    by Makoto Fujimura ...
    Logos Bookstore Association AwardDallas Willard Center Book Award FinalistForeword INDIES Book of the Year Awards FinalistWorld Magazine's Best BooksAldersgate Prize by the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan UniversityECPA Top Shelf Book Cover AwardOutreach Magazine Resource of the YearMissio Alliance Essential Reading ListShusaku Endo's novel Silence, first published i... ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hidden Ground of Love

    Letters

    by Thomas Merton ...
    Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is the most admired of all American Catholic writers. His journals have recently been published to wide acclaim.The collection of Merton's letters in The Hidden Ground of Love were selected and edited by William H. Shannon. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Secret History of Western Sexual Mysticism

    Sacred Practices and Spiritual Marriage

    by Arthur Versluis ...
    The first book to reveal the history of Western sexual mysticism• Reveals the secret sexual practices that have been used since ancient Greece to achieve mystical union with God• Details the sects and individuals who transmitted the radical sexual practices that orthodox Christianity never completely silenced• Distinguishes between sexual magic and sexual mysticismBeginning with the ancient Greek ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tamil

    A Biography

    by David Shulman ...
    Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique ... Read more

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  • The Invention of Religion in Japan

    by Jason Ananda Josephson ...
    A study of how Japan once had no concept of "religion," and what happened when officials were confronted by American Commodore Perry in 1853.Throughout its long history, Japan had no concept of what we call "religion." There was no corresponding Japanese word, nor anything close to its meaning. But when American warships appeared off the coast of Japan in 1853 and forced the Japanese government to ... Read more

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  • A Way to God

    Thomas Merton's Creation Spirituality Journey

    by Matthew Fox ...
    This unique reflection was prompted by an invitation Matthew Fox received to speak on the centennial of Thomas Merton’s birth. Fox says that much of the trouble he’s gotten into — such as being excommunicated in 1993 from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict) — was because of Thomas Merton, who sent Fox to Paris to complete a doctoral program in philosophy. Fox ... Read more

    $11.59 USD