A Dwelling Place for Wisdom

196 Pages·1993·11.507 MB·English

by  Raimon Panikkar

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A Dwelling Place for Wisdom
Raimon Panikkar
Translated by Annemarie S. Kidder
Westminster/John Knox Press
Louisville, Kentucky
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© 1993 Raimon Panikkar
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The major portion of this text was originally published in German as Der Weisheit
eine Wohnung Bereiten (Munich: Késel Verlag, 1991).
Book design by Laura Lee
First edition
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Panikkar, Raimundo
[Weisheit eine Wohnung bereiten. English]
A dwelling place for wisdom / Raimon Panikkar ; translated by Annemarie S.
Kidder. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-664-25362-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Life. 2. Wisdom. 3. Religions. 4. Philosophy, Comparative. 5. Tradi-
tion (Philosophy) 6. Self (Philosophy) 7. Christianity and other religions—
Hinduism. 8. Hinduism—Relations—Christianity.
I. Title.
BD435.P2613 1993
128—dc20 92-19450
Contents
Preface
I. Preparing a Dwelling Place for Wisdom
Wisdom
A Dwelling Place 13
Preparing 19
Questions and Answers on Wisdom 26
Quaternitas Perfecta:
The Fourfold Nature of Man 31
First Center: Earth and Body 35
Second Center: Water and Self 42
Third Center: Fire and Being 51
Fourth Center: Air and Spirit 58
Questions and Answers on the
“Perfect Fourfoldness”’ 70
Il. Philosophy as Life-style it
82
About the Person
88
The Wisdom of Love
92
The Existential Venture
94
The Intellectual Burden
99
Spiritual Freedom
Questions and Answers on Life-style 99
Trisangam: Jordan, Tiber, and Ganges 109
109
The Dilemma
Five Epochs of Christian History 114
Lessons Learned from History 118
121
Methodological Principles
Three Geo-Theological Moments 122
Contents
Dialogue Between a Hindu-Vedantin
and a Christian Theologian 129
Three Attitudes: Christendom, Christianity,
Christianness 134
Three Problems 140
Conclusions 150
The Cosmotheandric Christ 152
ThisI sY ou: Questions and Answers in Summary 153
161
Abbreviations
163
Notes
Glossary 171
Sources 179
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