Evangelical Zen, Second Edition
2nd Edition
Published on 7. November 2024
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-6667-6842-8 (ISBN)
Description
Evangelical Zen is part Augustine's Confessions and part Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Here Paul Louis Metzger, an Evangelical Christian theologian, reflects on his spiritual journey--an inner pilgrimage of sorts that weaves through a physical forty-day journey with his family to Japan. The experiences of that journey, the beauties of Japan, its culture, and its religion become for him a lens on a deeper quest: here he is searching for and, he believes, finding a global humanity in conversation with the late Zen Buddhist priest Kyogen Carlson, his Buddhist friend. This second edition includes a new foreword by esteemed missionary statesman and scholar, Thomas John Hastings, a new introduction and new concluding essay by the author, and an afterword by the acclaimed Buddhist author, Sallie Jiko Tisdale.
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Edition
2nd ed.
Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-6667-6842-8 (9781666768428)
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Persons
Paul Louis Metzger is Professor of Theology & Culture, Multnomah University/Seminary, Director of The Institute for Cultural Engagement: New Wine, New Wineskins, and author and editor of numerous works, including A World for All? Global Civil Society in Political Theory and Trinitarian Theology (co-editor, 2011), Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths (2012), and More Than Things: A Personalist Ethics for a Throwaway Culture (2023). Kyogen Carlson served as Abbot of Dharma Rain Zen Center, Portland, Oregon and as former president of the Soto Zen Buddhist Association. He authored the book Zen in the American Grain: Discovering the Teachings at Home (1994) and You Are Still Here: Zen Teachings of Kyogen Carlson, edited by Sallie Jiko Tisdale (2021).