The Silent Dialogue: Zen Letters to a Trappist Monk - Hardcover

Hackett, David G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826407803 ISBN 13: 9780826407801

Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Co., 1996

Synopsis

Letters from the author to Father Thomas Keating and the monks at St. Joseph's monastery between 1974 and 1976 while Hackett was traveling through Japan and Southeast Asia on a spiritual journey

About this title

About the Author:

David G. Hackett is associate professor of religion at the University of Florida at Gainesville.

From Library Journal:

At the time Hackett (religion, Univ. of Florida, Gainsville) wrote the letters that this book comprises, he was a young man, recently converted to Roman Catholicism. He was struggling to reconcile his grounding in Zen practice with his newfound Christian faith and the possibility of a calling to the contemplative life of the Trappist. His correspondence, the bulk of which is from Japan, is with Father Thomas Keating, the abbot of a Trappist monastery in upstate New York. Throughout his letters, Hackett's spiritual trials are expressed in clear and insightful language that brings alive the core issues surrounding the mysterious intersection that occurs between Zen and Catholicism, as well as the areas where the two seem to be irreconcilable. In the few letters of reply from Father Thomas offered here, we see the gentle working of a spiritually experienced guide. A clearly written and important book for anyone interested in Zen and Catholicism and, to a lesser extent, in comparative religion in general.?Mark Woodhouse, Elmira Coll. Lib., N.Y.
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About this edition

• Publisher: The Continuum Publishing Co.
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0826407803
• ISBN 13: 9780826407801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176