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Book Review: "Interreligous Hospitality: The Fulfillment of Dialogue,"– By Pierre-François de Béthune |
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| Author |
Heisig, James
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| Source |
Religious Studies Review
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| Volume | v.38 n.1 |
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| Date | 2012.03.13 |
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| Pages | 10 |
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| Publisher | Wiley-Blackwell |
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http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/
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| Location | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article; 書評=Book Review |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | INTERRELIGOUS HOSPITALITY: THE FULFILLMENT OF DIALOGUE . By Pierre-François de Béthune . Foreword by Raimon Panikkar . Collegeville, MN : Liturgical Press , 2010 . Pp. xi + 168 . $21.95 . |
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| Abstract | In 1979, the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya initiated an intermonastic exchange involving Christians and Buddhists from leading monasteries of Europe and Japan. The brief experience of the nuns and monks who shared in the monastic life of their Buddhist counterparts led to more extended encounters and, for not a few of the participants, left a lasting impact on their religious life and practice. The guidelines established the previous year by the Vatican commission for Monastic Interreligious Dialogue proved, in practice, too restrictive to accommodate the experience of the participants. The numerous doctrinal suspicions voiced by church authorities observing the events from the outside failed to capture the spirit of the adventure, and it was only through the patient resistance of monks like de Béthune that the dialogue continues to this day. This book is a thoughtful and inspiring reflection on that spirit. Tracing his encounters with the tea ceremony, Zen meditation, and life in a Buddhist monastery, the author examines the idea of “hospitality” as the heart of interreligious dialogue. His text is sprinkled with well‐chosen sayings and stories from the Buddhist tradition, along with the occasional jab at the “shallowness” and baroque irrelevance of the way Christian doctrine and art is promoted in Rome. The contrast is not drawn with arrogance, but with the simplicity of a true spiritual master who knows what it is to let go of privilege and rank in order to remain a disciple to the things that matter most. |
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| ISSN | 0319485X (P); 17480922 (E) |
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| Created date | 2014.11.05 |
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| Modified date | 2019.11.28 |
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