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Invisible Harmony: Essays on Contemplation and Responsibility
Raimon Panikkar's contributions to comparative religions and Christian theology have made him a pioneer in East-West and interreligious dialogue. A gifted and original thinker, Panikkar here issues an invitation to a world spirituality, a human cosmic trust. Spirituality without responsibility is egoism or cowardice, he asserts. He shows how the intense personal and societal reassessment that comes from a serious encounter with world religious traditions radically challenges modern Western assumptions and illumines complex questions of action and contemplation, immanence and transcendence, pluralism and truth, and religious responsibility for the world.
210 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 1995
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Raimon Panikkar
201 books64 followersRaimon Panikkar was a proponent of inter-religious dialogue. He continued to work as a Roman Catholic priest and a scholar specialized in comparative religion.
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July 31, 2010
I was fortunate enough to have this wonderful soul on my thesis committee at the Religious Studies Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Through he currently resides in Spain, at that time he lived just up an oak-studded road from my cottage.
He was not one of those professors who just shows up in class, then goes home and collects his check. Raimundo's home was always open to his students, with whom he fashioned deep personal relationships. For instance, hundreds of students, guitars and flowers in hand, would hike up to the top of the mountain range with him on Easter mornings, for sunrise services.
Always one to shake up religious orthodoxy and dogma, he penned such classics as The Unknown Christ of Hinduism and, after retiring to Spain, he married -- although he is a Catholic priest.
It is said that Raimindo spent eight hours of each day in contemplation, eight hours teaching and eight hours sleeping. Aside from his passion for inter-religious dialog, he also wrote, like contemplatives before him, about the relationship between contemplation and action.
I consider his work required reading for anyone with spiritual and religious interests.
Through he currently resides in Spain, at that time he lived just up an oak-studded road from my cottage.
He was not one of those professors who just shows up in class, then goes home and collects his check. Raimundo's home was always open to his students, with whom he fashioned deep personal relationships. For instance, hundreds of students, guitars and flowers in hand, would hike up to the top of the mountain range with him on Easter mornings, for sunrise services.
Always one to shake up religious orthodoxy and dogma, he penned such classics as The Unknown Christ of Hinduism and, after retiring to Spain, he married -- although he is a Catholic priest.
It is said that Raimindo spent eight hours of each day in contemplation, eight hours teaching and eight hours sleeping. Aside from his passion for inter-religious dialog, he also wrote, like contemplatives before him, about the relationship between contemplation and action.
I consider his work required reading for anyone with spiritual and religious interests.
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