Spiritual guides : pathfinders in the desert /

"In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the "desert character" of modern culture. Political and economic corruption, incessant warmongering, spoliation of natural resources, and, above all, mindless consumerism and greedy self-satisfaction are all sym...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dallmayr, Fred R. (Fred Reinhard), 1928- (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press [2017]
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctvpj743b
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: throught the desert
  • Faithful expectation: hommage a Paul Tillich
  • Sacred secularity: Raimon Panikkar's holistic faith
  • From desert to bloom: Thomas Merton's contemplative praxis
  • Herald of glad tidings: Pope Francis as teacher of global politics
  • Modes of religious spirituality: some Christian and Islamic legacies
  • Emptiness and compassion: some Christian-Buddhist encounters
  • Epilogue: on being poor in spirit.