Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: The Place of Zen in Christian Life
Ebook
A new revised edition of the classic title on Zen and Christian living.
Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit is a study of the intersection between Zen Buddhism and Christianity. Robert Kennedy explores how Zen can help us to live deeper lives and how we can return from a study of Zen to a more profound understanding of Christian living and practice.
"What I looked for in Zen," says the author, "was not a new faith, but a new way of being Catholic that grew out of my own lived experience and would not be blown away by authority or by changing theological fashion." Kennedy is unique in being competent in both Catholic and Zen practice and who responds to people who are drawn to this form of prayer and life. This is a refreshingly simple but also most beautiful book.
A new revised edition of the classic title on Zen and Christian living.
Since the original edition Kennedy has been elevated to a Zen Roshi (teacher/master) and has founded the Star Zendo centre in Jersey City.
The substantial revision of the book is a result of the author's continuing dialogue with Christians who are interested in Zen
Emeritus professor of Theology and Zen master he is also a practising psychoanalyst.
This revised edition of Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit could not appear at a more appropriate time ... Robert E. Kennedy, a Jesuit priest and a Zen roshi, reveals in this book and in his own life the path that we, both believers and non-believers, need to take in order to grow in knowledge, love, purification, and union with what is truly real. A more spiritually transformative book and guide can hardly be found.
Robert Kennedy's unpretentious personal reflections on Zen koans draw the reader into Buddhist practice in an uncanny way; one sees with new eyes … Kennedy opens a door and throws light across the spectrum of Christian spiritual wisdom.
- Title: Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: The Place of Zen in Christian Life
- Author: Robert Kennedy
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Continuum
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781635579918, 9781635579970, 163557997X, 1635579910
- Resource ID: LLS:9781635579918
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-12T04:00:43Z
Robert Kennedy is an American Jesuit priest and Zen Roshi (master). He holds a doctorate in Theology from the University of Ottawa, and another in psychology from Andover Newton Theological School in Boston. He continues his Zen practice in Los Angeles and with Glassman Roshi in New York. He founded Morning Star Zendo in Jersey City. He teaches in Ireland, UK, Ecuador, Mexico and in several Zen centers in the USA. He resides in New York City.