Product Description: While New Testament scholars generally agree that the concept of righteousness occupies an important place in the Gospel of Matthew, there is no scholarly consensus as to the meaning and function of this concept. The author of this study contends that this lack of agreement is largely due to the fact that the wrong background literature (i...read more

Product Description: In The Design of Existence, Wilson Van Dusen offers spiritual explorers a guidebook for mystical experience, describing the inner landscape in detail. Though considering himself a scientist, Van Dusen approaches reality as a mystic, using the writings of 18th-century visionary Emanuel Swedenborg as a lens...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the first American-born Zen masters, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, the Roman Catholic monk and hermit, took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii...read more

Product Description: The Eastern religious traditions, especially the varieties of Buddhism, were the last great passion in Thomas Merton's life. His participation in a monastic conference in Asia led to his premature, accidental death. He discoursed on equal terms with the Dalai Lama, and extracts from their interviews appear in this book...read more

Examines contemporary problems of Christianity and shows how tenets of Eastern wisdom and Zen meditation can be combined with Christian teachings and prayer as a means toward self-realization and fulfillment

Product Description: Explores the experience of enlightenmentin sacred traditions and how it affects those who experience it.

Examines contemporary problems of Christianity and shows how tenets of Eastern wisdom and Zen meditation can be combined with Christian teachings and prayer as a means toward self-realization and fulfillment