What Is God? - Couverture rigide

Needleman, Jacob

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1585427403 ISBN 13 : 9781585427406

Editeur : Jeremy P Tarcher, 2010

Synopsis

What is God? In his most deeply personal work, religious scholar and philosopher Needleman cuts a clear path through today's clamorous debates over the existence of God, illuminating an entirely new way of approaching the question of how to understand a higher power. Full description

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Présentation de l'éditeur

In this new book, philosopher Jacob Needleman - whose voice and ideas have done so much to open the West to esoteric and Eastern religious ideas in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - intimately considers humanity's most vital question: What is God? Needleman begins by taking us more than a half century into the past, to his own experience as a brilliant, promising, Ivy educated student of philosophy - atheistic, existential and unwilling to blindly accept childish religiosity. But an unsettling meeting with the venerated Zen teacher, D. T. Suzuki, combined with the sudden need to accept a dreary position teaching the philosophy of religion, forced the young academician to look more closely at the religious ideas he had once thought dead. Within traditional religious texts the scholar discovered a core of esoteric and philosophical ideas, more mature and challenging than anything he had ever associated with Judaism, Christianity and the religions of the East. At the same time, Needleman came to realise - as he shares with the reader - that ideas and words are not enough. Ideas and words, no matter how profound, cannot prevent hatred, arrogance and ultimate despair and cannot prevent our individual lives from descending into violence and illusion. And with this insight, Needleman begins to open the reader to a new kind of understanding: The inner realization that in order to lead the lives we were intended for, the very nature of human experience must change, including the very structure of our perception and indeed the very structure of our minds.

Revue de presse

"Needleman has put out a powerful and deeply personal book about his lifelong effort to connect with God using both his head and his heart...a rare book that manages to be both skeptical and inspiring."
--San Francisco Chronicle

"A thought provoking amalgam of philosophy, interpersonal psychology, and religious thought."
--Library Journal

"Although the subject matter may at times seem challenging to the casual reader, the author's informal, chatty style makes it appealing to anyone interested in exploring spiritual matters and following one distinguished writer's quest to develop some understanding of at least a trace of the essential nature of the Divine."
--Retailing Insight

"An erudite, challenging text full of difficult questions"
--Kirkus Reviews

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jeremy P Tarcher
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1585427403
• ISBN 13: 9781585427406
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible