Paths To The Heart: Sufism And The Chris

by James S. Cutsinger

Overview

Despite the long and well-known history of conflict between Christians and Muslims, their mystical traditions especially in the Christian East and in Sufism, have shared for centuries many of the same spiritual methods and goals. The purpose of this book, the first major publication of its kind, is to promote precisely this more inward kind of ecumenical perspective. These essays point to a spiritual heart in which the deeper meaning of Christian and Muslim beliefs and practices come alive, and where spiritual pilgrims may discover, beyond the level of seemingly contradictory forms, an inner commonality with those who follow other paths.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935493754
Publisher:	World Wisdom
Publication date:	08/01/2010
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	425 KB

About the Author

James S. Cutsinger is an author, editor, and teacher whose writings focus primarily on Perennialism and the theology and spirituality of the Christian East. He is professor of Theology and Religious Thought at the University of South Carolina.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Dimensions of the Heart
1.	How Do We Enter the Heart?	2
2.	St Seraphim of Sarov in Sufic Perspective	24
3.	The Heart of the Faithful is the Throne of the All-Merciful	32
	The Path of Remembrance
4.	On the Cosmology of Dhikr	48
5.	Presence, Participation, Performance: The Remembrance of God in the Early Hesychast Fathers	64
6.	Paths of Continuity: Contemporary Witnesses of the Hesychast Experience	112
	Toward an Esoteric Ecumenism
7.	The Metaphysics of Interfaith Dialogue: Sufi Perspectives on the Universality of the Quranic Message	140
8.	A Unity with Distinctions: Parallels in the Thought of St Gregory Palamas and Ibn Arabi	190
9.	Hesychia: An Orthodox Opening to Esoteric Ecumenism	225
	Conclusions
10.	The Long Way Home	252
11.	Panel Discussion	261
	Contributors	277

Editorial Reviews

"academically excellent as well as spiritually compelling." (Lawrence Meehan, Sophia: The Journal of Traditional Studies

Lawrence Meehan