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Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the BuddhaISBN 0861713362 (0-86171-336-2)
Softcover, Wisdom Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha'Book summary:A compelling question for people of faith today is how to remain committed to one's own religious tradition while being open to the beauty and truth of other religions. Many who have broadened their experience profess to have developed a deeper understanding of and a deeper commitment to their tradition of origin. This is what makes Beside Still Waters such a new and meaningful contribution. Rather than offering research or lectures, this book takes a deeply personal approach, allowing the reader to delve into the individual experiences of fourteen Jews and Christians whose encounters with Buddhism have truly impacted their sense of religious identity. Beside Still Waters upholds this point by way of the diverse and eloquent authors who lend their perspective in its pages. These include Sylvia Boorstein, John B. Cobb, Norman Fischer, Ruben Habito, and other important members of the Jewish, Christian, and scholarly communities, as well as a foreword by Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography. Their anecdotes and interviews collected here amount to an unprecedented and enduring work, sure to deepen our ability to understand each other, and ourselves.[via]More editions of Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha:
The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004by Philip Zaleski, Jack MilesISBN 0618443037 (0-618-44303-7)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004'Book summary:It is said that we live in a secular age, yet religion and spirituality, belief and practice, are ever more powerful forces in contemporary culture, shaping both personal lives and world events. The newest addition to the acclaimed Best American series reflects this trend, bringing us the year's finest writing about faith and spirituality from a rich array of traditions sure to enrich the lives of all readers.[via]
Included is the work of some of our finest poets -- Mark Doty, W. S. Merwin, Philip Levine -- and most original essayists. Spiritual insight comes in both expected and unexpected places: Thomas Lynch writes of his work as an undertaker, Sallie Tisdale witnesses the miracle of an elephant's birth, and Patricia Monaghan finds consolation in Heisenberg's theory during a period of intense grief.
In his introduction, Jack Miles writes, "American spiritual writing at its best is, in sum, a pluriform, multifarious acknowledgment of discomfiture and an opening of exits into a wider world . . . The reader is led to this volume, I imagine, by the question: 'There must be something more. Where can I find it?' The contributors to this volume answer, in effect: 'You will find it when it finds you.'"More editions of The Best American Spiritual Writing 2004:
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Christ : A Crisis in the Life of Godby Jack MilesISBN 0679781609 (0-679-78160-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God'Book summary:Bucking the trend of books about "the historical Jesus," Jack Miles offers a purely literary reading of the New Testament--rendering Jesus as a character whose history spans all of time, from the beginning to the end. Continuing the work begun in his Pulitzer prize-winning God: A Biography, Miles considers the New Testament the next chapter of an ongoing story. The central question of this chapter is, "Why does [God] become a man?" In Miles's reading, God "has something appalling to say that he can say only by humiliating himself." The world's inherent flaws, its pervasive injustice and cruelty, comprise "a great crime" for which someone must pay. "Mythologically read, the New Testament is the story of how someone, the right someone, does pay for it." As God, in the form of Christ, pays the price for His own mistakes, the crucifixion "saves us from the violence that we might otherwise feel justified in inflicting on one another." Ingeniously argued and masterfully paced, this book presents an original and unsettling portrait of Christ. Whatever readers think of Miles's premise--that God is heroic but not saintly--the book will certainly force them to reexamine Christ's relevance to moral life. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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A Corner of the Veilby Laurence Cosse, Linda Asher, Jack MilesISBN 0684846675 (0-684-84667-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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God: A Biographyby Jack MilesISBN 0679743685 (0-679-74368-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God: A Biography'Book summary:Treating the Bible as a literary text is a standard approach in certain areas of scholarship. Jack Miles' innovation is to treat God as the main protagonist of this literary work, and to analyze his "character" as revealed in the text. Miles, a former Jesuit who studied in Rome and Jerusalem, and has a doctorate in Near Eastern languages, analyzed the Hebrew Bible (for the most part like the Old Testament, but ordered differently) to arrive at his literary exegesis. This God, it is clear, is certainly a complex character. Undoubtedly male, but possessed of seemingly multiple personalities, He is alternately creator/destroyer, protector/executioner, and warrior/lawgiver. Miles' "reading" of God, whose proactive role at the beginning develops into a passive silent presence, is entertaining, thoughtful and a worthy winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. [via]
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- God: A Biography: ISBN 0671711784 (0-671-71178-4)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - God: A Biography: ISBN 0684816849 (0-684-81684-9)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - God: A Biography: ISBN 0684840480 (0-684-84048-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster, Limited - God : A Biography: ISBN 0517195119 (0-517-19511-9)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - God: A Biography: ISBN 0679418334 (0-679-41833-4)
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- God: A Biography: ISBN 0671711784 (0-671-71178-4)
Islamic Political Ethics: Civil Society, Pluralism, and Conflictby Jack MilesISBN 0691113106 (0-691-11310-6)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Lifeby Jean-Francois Revel, Jack Miles , John CantiISBN 0805211039 (0-8052-1103-9)
Softcover, Schocken Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life'Book summary:The Monk and the Philosopher is a collection of father-son dialogues between Jean-François Revel, a French philosopher and journalist famous for his leadership in protests of both Christianity and Communism, and Matthieu Ricard, his son, who gave up a promising career as a scientist to become a Buddhist monk in the Himalayas. The conversations recorded in this book took place during 10 days at an inn in Katmandu. The range of their subjects is immense: What is Buddhism? Why does it have such appeal to many in the West? Why do Buddhists believe in reincarnation? What are the differences between Buddhist and Christian monastic life? How do science and individualism make authentic Buddhist practice difficult for Westerners to achieve? Despite the simplicity of many of these questions, Revel and Ricard never give simplistic answers. Their discussions are rich without being dense, and, even more notably, they take every question very personally. The result is a book perfectly suited as an introduction to the elements of Buddhist religion (with a good bit of Tibetan history thrown in) that is also an excellent description of what it has been like for one man (Ricard) to practice Buddhist faith. However, as Ricard wisely notes at the end of this book, "No dialogue, however enlightening it might be, could ever be a substitute for the silence of personal experience, so indispensable for an understanding of how things really are." The greatest strength of The Monk and the Philosopher may be its power to return readers to careful attention to the way we pass our days. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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Robert Graham: The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angelsby Jack Miles , Peggy Fogelman, Noriko FujinamiISBN 0964235935 (0-9642359-3-5)
Hardcover, Wave Pub
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Robert Graham: The Great Bronze Doors for the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angelsby Robert Graham, Jack Miles , Peggy Fogelman, Noriko Fujinami, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels (Los Angeles, Calif.)ISBN 0964235986 (0-9642359-8-6)
Hardcover, Wave Pub
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Stations of the Crossby Jack Miles , Lisa Ruyter, Stefanie SchaefflerISBN 3883755990 (3-88375-599-0)
Softcover, Verlag De Buchhandlung Walter
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Gott.by Jack MilesISBN 3446174141 (3-446-17414-1)
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Gott. Kultur und Geschichte: Band 34229by Jack MilesISBN 3423342293 (3-423-34229-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gott. Kultur und Geschichte: Band 34229'Book summary:Das Buch ist ein Wagnis: Jack Miles liest die Bibel als Werk der Weltliteratur und betrachtet dabei Gott als dessen Held. Es ist ein ungewöhnlicher Weg, aber ungemein spannend, wenn man sich darauf einläßt.
Zunächst mag die Vorgehensweise naiv anmuten, am Anfang der Bibel zu beginnen und zu beschreiben, wie und als wer sich Gott darstellt. Doch unreflektiert schreibt Miles sein Buch keineswegs. Schon den Rahmen der Handlung steckt er bewußt ab, wenn er sich für den Tanach, also die Hebräische Bibel und ihre Reihenfolge der Bücher des christlichen Alten Testamentes, entscheidet. Das Nacheinander von Geschichtsbüchern, Prophetenbüchern und als Abschluß poetischen Werken faßt er als Entwicklung im Charakter und Verhalten Gottes selbst auf: Während er zu Beginn als Schöpfer, Befreier und Eroberer auftritt, wandelt er sich über seine Rolle als Liebender und Heiliger zum verborgenen Gott, sein mächtiges Wort am Beginn steht dem Schweigen am Ende gegenüber.
Für Bibelkundige wie Distanzierte gibt es in diesem Buch vieles zu entdecken. In die Erzählung fließt viel Wissen ein, was das Unterfangen so interessant macht. In Gang gehalten wird die Dynamik durch die Frage nach dem Warum. Wie kommt es zum "Decrescendo" vom Höhepunkt Schöpfung bis zum Ende? Und wie verhält es sich mit der Beziehung Gottes zu dem von ihm erschaffenen Menschen? Der komplexe Charakter des einen Protagonisten bewegt den Autor wie die Lesenden: Warum und wie vereinen sich in dem einen Gott Aspekte zum Beispiel des Weiblichen und Männlichen, für die andere Religionen die Form des Polytheismus wählen?.
Alles in allem ein faszinierendes Buch, das wie das Original dazu anregt, sich hinein zu vertiefen und nach einer Antwort zu suchen. --Stefanie Ott-Frühwald [via]
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Jesus.by Jack MilesISBN 3423341122 (3-423-34112-2)
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