What Does It Mean to Be Human?: Reverence for Life Reaffirmed by Responses from Around the World

by Frederick Franck (Editor), Janis Roze (Editor), Richard Connolly (Editor)

Overview

In an inspirational act of faith and hope, nearly one hundred contributors—social activists, thinkers, artists and spiritual leaders—reflect with poignant candor on our shared human condition and attempt to define a core set of human values in our rapidly changing socity.

Contributors include:

* The Dalai Lama

* Wilma Mankiller

* Oscar Arias

* Jimmy Carter

* Cornel West

* Jack Miles

* Mother Teresa

* Nancy Willard

* Elie Wiesel

* James Earl Jones

* Joan Chittister

* Mary Evelyn Tucker

* Vaclav Havel

* Archbishop Desmund Tutu

What Does It Mean To Be Human? is a vital meditation on the endless possibilities of our humanity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312271015
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/03/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

Frederick Franck is the author of twenty-seven books including the classic Zen of Seeing, My Days with Albert Schweitzer, and A Little Compendium on That Which Matters.

Janis Roze teaches biology at CUNY.

Richard Connolly is a communications art professor at SUNY.

Table of Contents

	Prologue	1
	Rhena Schweitzer Miller	8
	Tenzin Gyatso, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama	11
	Rabbi Avraham Soetendorf	13
	Jack Miles	17
	Elie Wiesel	20
	Yehudi Menuhin	22
	Mary Evelyn Tucker	24
	Oscar Arias	26
	Facundo Cabral	27
	Dorothea Solle	29
	Thomas Berry	32
	Jose Munoz	39
	C. Richard Chapman	42
	Nancy Willard	45
	Joseph Rotblat	47
	Charlie Musselwhite	51
	Vaclav Havel	53
	Richard Connolly	56
	Daniel Martin	57
	Raimon Panikkar	61
	Ram Dass	64
	Donella Meadows	67
	Seyyed Hossein Nasr	70
	Gary MacEoin	77
	Willis Harman	79
	Juliet Hollister	83
	Mother Teresa	85
	Mary Palmer Smith	88
	Georg Feuerstein	91
	Carman Moore	93
	Huston Smith	95
	Amanda Bernal-Carlo	102
	Monsignor William Linder	105
	Alexander Eliot	109
	James Parks Morton	112
	Leonard Marks	114
	Nancy Jack Todd	117
	Patrick Clarke	120
	Arno Gruen	123
	Robert Aitken	129
	Anne E. Goldfeld	130
	James Finn Cotter	134
	Gillian Kean	136
	Catharina Halkes	138
	Dean Frantz	142
	Cornel West	144
	Joan Chittister	149
	Rupert Sheldrake	154
	Janis Roze	159
	Willem A. M. Alting von Geusau	163
	Chungliang Al Huang	166
	Jacques Langlais	170
	Ludek Broz	174
	Pedro Aznar	177
	Satish Kumar	180
	Joanna Macy	185
	Stephen Hoe Snyder	189
	Naomi Shihab Nye	191
	John Grim	193
	Arn Chorn-Pond	195
	James M. Mboje	198
	Lukas van Witsen Franck	200
	Richard Kiley	203
	Harry M. Buck	206
	Virginia Ramey Mollenkott	208
	Judith Thompson	210
	Catherine de Vinck	213
	James Heisig	215
	Leonardo Lazarte	217
	Rustum Roy	220
	Tomin Harada	223
	Annelie Keil	226
	Arthur Frank	231
	Thomas Bezanson	237
	Anne Wilson Schaef	239
	Ervin Laszlo	242
	James Earl Jones	245
	Mel King	246
	Ralph White	248
	Ramon Pascuel Munoz Soler	251
	Daniel Berrigan	255
	Denize Lauture	257
	Wilma Mankiller	258
	Catherine Bernier	260
	Constance Carlough	262
	David Krieger	263
	Ruth Slickman	265
	Akihisa Kondo	267
	Archbishop Desmond Tutu	269
	Ashis Nandy	273
	Harvey Cox	279
	Frederick Franck	284
	Editors' Note	287

Editorial Reviews

A truly noble and intelligent project...better than all the millenial summings up.” —Russell Banks

From the Publisher

One of the contributors is a businessman and contemplative living in Aberden, Scotland. Another is described as " a highly respected German feminist theologian and author" still another, as "a Jungian analyst in Fort Wayne, Indiana". Mother Teresa and The Dalai Lama are on the list, but so are actor James Earl Jones and Leonard Marks, celebrity lawyer. Microbiologists and housewives share the podium for a very good reason: When contemplating the nature of being human, none of us have a monopoly on the truth.

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