978-1-57075-855-3 The Rhythm of Being The Gifford Lectures
by
Raimon Panikkar
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500 pp.
Hard cover
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Book Description One of the world’s most important philosophers of religion reveals the
unity of cosmic Mystery in this distillation of the wisdom of East and
West, North and South.
Twenty years after he delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures, Raimon
Panikkar's The Rhythm of Being is finally published. It is a tour de force of profound insights gleaned from a lifetime of connecting the worlds of religion, philosophy, science, and revelation.
In describing his work, Panikkar says,"I am not trying to say something new. I do not wish to contribute to the alienation produced by the obsessive search for novelties. My originality, if any, will be that of going to the origins—not to do archeology, or to make anachronistic interpretations…but to perform the task of a latter day hunter gatherer, re-collecting life from the stupendous field of human experience on Earth …The ideas here expressed are the fruit not of a dialectical mind making use of induction or deduction from the sources of ancients and contemporaries,
but, having paid respect to them, they are the fruit of a personal experience
which has been later checked and criticized by the wisdom of all those whom I have had the privilege to hear or to read."
The Rhythm of Being offers scholars and students, philosophers and seekers a challenging and breathtaking voyage into the very heart of human belief and meaning.
One of the world's leading proponents of interreligious dialogue,
Raimon Pannikar has taught in Europe, Asia, and North America, including at Harvard University and the University of Santa Barbara, California. His many books include The Cosmotheandric Experience and Christophany: The Fullness of Man.
