Lost Christiantiy

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ISBN: 9781585422531 | 1585422533
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/25/2003

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Unavailable for several years, Lost Christianityis a profound reexamination of the essence of Christian thought and faith. Philosopher and bestselling author Jacob Needleman has sought out the ancient texts and modern practitioners of essential Christianity, whose message speaks directly to contemporary seekers.

Preface to the Tarcher/Penguin Edition	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The "Old Religions"	p. 1
What Are Christians Looking For?	p. 2
A "Christian Monk"	p. 5
Father Sylvan	p. 7
Three Christians
Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh	p. 15
Credentials	p. 15
The Two Streams	p. 17
Questions Without Answers	p. 19
"Occult" Christianity	p. 21
The Emotion of a Christian	p. 23
A Demand	p. 25
Athens	p. 28
Vulnerability	p. 30
The Contact of Forces	p. 33
The Origin of Spiritual Exercises	p. 35
Seeing and Gnosis; "Faith vs. Reason"	p. 37
New Emotion, New Thought	p. 41
Father Vincent	p. 44
What Is a Priest?	p. 44
Spiritual Psychology	p. 49
Psychology and Scale	p. 52
The Theory and Practice of the Search	p. 54
A Game of Cards	p. 55
Seeing Father Vincent	p. 58
"Acornology"	p. 59
Freud and Human Possibility	p. 60
The Natural Attraction to Truth	p. 62
Conversation in Two Worlds	p. 66
The Life and Search of Father Vincent	p. 70
From the Journal of Father Sylvan	p. 79
The Lost Doctrine of the Soul
Christianity and Eastern Meditation	p. 107
Christianity and Buddhism	p. 107
Thomas Merton	p. 113
Intermediate Christianity	p. 117
St. Joseph's Abbey	p. 124
The Primal Christian Act	p. 124
Father Thomas Keating	p. 126
Contemplation as Knowledge	p. 126
The "Middle" and Its Neglect	p. 127
Knowledge and Love	p. 129
The Fragmentation of Contemplative Prayer	p. 130
The Scale of History	p. 131
The Centering Prayer	p. 132
Apatheia, or Emotional Freedom	p. 136
The Location of Freedom	p. 139
What Does the Church Really Want?	p. 140
A Search for Conscious Christianity	p. 145
Jesuit Spirituality	p. 145
Attention and Virtue	p. 151
The Attention of the Heart	p. 155
Attention as Prayer	p. 162
The Soul: Intermediate Being	p. 166
Six Points About the Soul	p. 166
Gurdjieff	p. 169
Search as the Transforming Force	p. 171
The Appearance and Disappearance of the Soul	p. 175
The Soul in the Two Histories	p. 178
Two Histories; Two Doctrines	p. 178
The Intermediate in Hinduism	p. 179
Micro-monotheism	p. 181
The Intermediate in Buddhism	p. 183
The Language of the Second History	p. 187
The Soul Is Not the "Inner Being"	p. 190
The Origin of "Heresy"	p. 193
Gnosis Is Not Gnosticism	p. 195
The doctrine of the alien God	p. 196
Cosmic dualism	p. 200
The two races of men	p. 203
"Practical Instructions"	p. 207
A Fateful Ambiguity	p. 213
Conclusion: The Lost Religion of Love	p. 214
Index	p. 223
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