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From the earliest centuries there has existed a Christian theology
of mysticism, defining the state which Bernard Lonergan called a
"being in love with God." St. John of the Cross wrote such a
theology for the sixteenth century, calling it "the science of
love." Now, William Johnston, one of the great spiritual writers of
our time, attempts to do the same for the twenty-first century.
In Part One of Mystical Theology Johnston surveys Christian
mysticism through the centuries. Johnson shows that such a theology
today must dialogue with modern science and with Eastern religions.
Part Two provides this dialogue, where Johnston engages Einstein's
theories as well as Zen Buddhism. In Part Three, it becomes clear
how the "science of love" is no longer an esoteric discipline for
monks and nuns. In Johnston's writing it becomes accessible to all
modern people grappling with problems of sexuality, social justice,
world peace, and the protection of the environment.
Mystical Theology is indispensable to all those seeking guidance
as well as intellectual and historical foundations of the Christian
mystical experience today.
Alan Riach’s The MacDiarmid Memorandum is a work of epic,
category-defying scope; blending biography and national history,
poetry and prose; an intimate portrait of an old friend and mentor,
and a political manifesto calling for revolution. Riach’s poems
begin with MacDiarmid’s childhood in Langholm and his first
attempts to navigate the Scottish landscape. We travel from the
Borders to Shetland, from Edinburgh to rural Lanarkshire. The poems
map a nation where nature is inseparable from political history.
They explore a peculiarly Scottish kind of consciousness, willing
itself to be free yet bowed under the weight of self-suppression.
There is confrontation on various fronts. MacDiarmid experienced
trauma, divorce, breakdown, wildness and later, domestic affection.
At the same time, Scotland endured two world wars, each triggering
a continuing renaissance of Scottish artists and intellectuals,
struggling to regenerate international recognition and
self-determination. Alongside Riach’s poems, the book includes
reproductions of paintings by the artists Alexander Moffat and Ruth
Nicol, focusing on some of the landscapes, friends and associates
MacDiarmid knew most closely through his long life, plus a
frontispiece portrait by William Johnstone and a song-setting by
Ronald Stevenson.
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Outlaw Country (Paperback)
William Johnstone, J. A Johnstone
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William Johnston--an authority on fourteenth century spirituality and specifically on the writings of this unknown author--provides a substantive and accessible introduction detailing what is known about the history of this text and its relevance throughout the ages. Also included here is the author's other principal work, The Book of Privy Counseling--a short and moving text on the way to enlightenment through a total loss of self and consciousness only of the divine.
Detailed instructions, illustrations for carving animals, flowers, figures, more. Tips on tools, techniques, painting, finishing, exhibiting.
Protecting Transportation: Implementing Security Policies and
Programs provides a thorough overview of transportation security in
the United States, with a focus on policy. The book coversall major
transportation modes and puts the American security system into
perspective against other national and international systems.
Author R. William Johnstone, a transportation security expert and
member of the 9/11 Commission staff, discusses how the current
transportation security system came to be and how it is performing.
Whether you are a current or aspiring transportation security
professional, a policymaker, or an engaged citizen, Johnstone's
presentation equips you to understand today's issues and debates on
a problem that affects every member of the global community.
Transportation security has evolved in the years since 9/11 from a
relatively modest, sporadic undertaking into a multi-billion dollar
enterprise employing tens of thousands. Protecting Transportation
describes how that system is organized, funded, and implemented.
"For centuries, mystics have groped for words in which to account
for the supreme reality of this experience which not only
illuminates a man's mind and fills his heart with new strength, but
even radically transforms his whole life. All this is said in
classic and unforgettable pages by The Cloud of Unknowing, the work
of an anonymous fourteenth-century English writer. . .
The Inner Eye of Love offers a contemporary theology of mysticism
that locates it at the very center of authentic religious
experience. It provides as well a practical guide for meditation
even as it maps out the oceanic experience toward which meditation
points. Johnston begins with the mystical tradition itself, its
roots and origins, its appearance and significance in the Gospels,
the letters of Paul, and the early Church. He explains what
mysticism is and is not, and how it is inextricably bound up with
love. It is at the level of mysticism, he maintains, that the two
traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and
begin to work together to heal a broken world. The Inner Eye of
Love escorts the reader through the stages of the mystical journey,
from initial call to final enlightenment. Johnston compares and
contrasts the Oriental and Christian experience, continually
revealing new points of commonality The much discussed "dark night
of the soul" is seen here in a positive way, as an emptying
preliminary to the overbrimming of the soul with the knowledge and
love of God. Finally, the author considers the often misunderstood
relation between mysticism and practical action.
This work seeks to break down the barriers between science and
religion, as well as between religions themselves, in order to
extrapolate a comprehensive understanding of the science of
meditation. It reveals ways of understanding the mystical and our
search for wisdom in the modern world.
In Being in Love, William Johnston addresses the question of the
purpose of prayer. He shares with the reader the discovery of new
ways to a prayerful life that is both meditative and active. His
message is to surrender in love to God, to love God with one's own
being, through prayer. Here Being in Love shows us how to pray-with
heart, mind, intellect and body-as a form of communicating with
God, one another, and the world around us. Johnston reveals, using
his relationship with the Eastern traditions as a backdrop, the
need and importance of finding stillness in our inner lives. He
demonstrates in a clear and practical way, how we can make prayer a
place for meditation and personal growth.
In Being in Love, William Johnston addresses the question of the
purpose of prayer. He shares with the reader the discovery of new
ways to a prayerful life that is both meditative and active. His
message is to surrender in love to God, to love God with one's own
being, through prayer. Here Being in Love shows us how to pray-with
heart, mind, intellect and body-as a form of communicating with
God, one another, and the world around us. Johnston reveals, using
his relationship with the Eastern traditions as a backdrop, the
need and importance of finding stillness in our inner lives. He
demonstrates in a clear and practical way, how we can make prayer a
place for meditation and personal growth.
William Johnston writes that "the Christian mystic is one who lives
in the Christ-mystery and is transformed by it." Making the
distinction between Christian mysticism and other mystic
experiences, Johnston locates Christian mysticism in the
Scriptures-in meditation on the Word of God. "For God who spoke of
old interruptedly converses with the Bride of His beloved Son; and
the Holy Spirit. . . leads unto all truth those who believe and
makes the word of God dwell abundantly in them." The Wounded Stag
examines the Old and New Testaments, the Christian mystical
tradition, the Eucharist and mystical prayer, and explains how
these can lead to the resolution of the conflicts within our
hearts. Without inner peace, Johnston offers, we cannot hope for
peace in our world. As it discusses the social implications of
Christian mysticism, Johnston's book carries this very important
message for our world today.
The Inner Eye of Love offers a contemporary theology of mysticism
that locates it at the very center of authentic religious
experience. It provides as well a practical guide for meditation
even as it maps out the oceanic experience toward which meditation
points. Johnston begins with the mystical tradition itself, its
roots and origins, its appearance and significance in the Gospels,
the letters of Paul, and the early Church. He explains what
mysticism is and is not, and how it is inextricably bound up with
love. It is at the level of mysticism, he maintains, that the two
traditions of East and West can at last understand one another and
begin to work together to heal a broken world. The Inner Eye of
Love escorts the reader through the stages of the mystical journey,
from initial call to final enlightenment. Johnston compares and
contrasts the Oriental and Christian experience, continually
revealing new points of commonality The much discussed "dark night
of the soul" is seen here in a positive way, as an emptying
preliminary to the overbrimming of the soul with the knowledge and
love of God. Finally, the author considers the often misunderstood
relation between mysticism and practical action.
Christian Zen is a ground breaking book for all Christians seeking
to deepen and broaden their inner lives. Providing concrete
guidelines for a way of Christian meditation that incorporates
Eastern insights, it is a helpful book that can open new spiritual
vistas and reveal profound, often undreamed-of dimensions of the
Christian faith.
This book is based on eight lectures the author was invited to give
in Oxford in the fall of 1980 in honor of the late Martin D'Arcy,
Master of Campion Hall. All are concerned with mysticism or
mystical theology. The first chapter treats of the
Buddhist-Christian dialogue, which future generations will surely
regard as a high point in the evolution of the religious
consciousness of mankind.
It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the
soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human
values, principles, and ideals are being questioned and rejected,
has turned to an interest in the age-old practice of the East - the
quest for inner peace and tranquility as found in the profoundly
moving experience of contemplation after the method of Zen
Buddhism. In this deeply sympathetic study, the author compares the
principles and the practices of Zen with the traditional concepts,
aims, and results of Christian mysticism. His object is, first,
ecumenical - to explore the bases of Zen and Christian mysticism,
so that Buddhist and Christian can communicate; second, to rethink
the basic concepts of Catholic mystical theology in the light of
the Zen experience; and last, to encourage more people to
contemplative prayer.
William Johnston writes that “the Christian mystic is one who
lives in the Christ-mystery and is transformed by it.” Making the
distinction between Christian mysticism and other mystic
experiences, Johnston locates Christian mysticism in the
Scriptures—in meditation on the Word of God. “For God who spoke
of old interruptedly converses with the Bride of His beloved Son;
and the Holy Spirit. . . leads unto all truth those who believe and
makes the word of God dwell abundantly in them.” The Wounded Stag
examines the Old and New Testaments, the Christian mystical
tradition, the Eucharist and mystical prayer, and explains how
these can lead to the resolution of the conflicts within our
hearts. Without inner peace, Johnston offers, we cannot hope for
peace in our world. As it discusses the social implications of
Christian mysticism, Johnston’s book carries this very important
message for our world today.
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Silence (Paperback)
Shusaku Endo; Translated by William Johnston; Foreword by Martin Scorsese
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On March 11, 2011 one of the most powerful earthquakes in recorded
history devastated Japan, triggering a massive tsunami and nuclear
meltdowns at three reactors in the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Plant complex in a triple disaster known as 3.11. On five separate
journeys, Japanese-born performer and dancer Eiko Otake and
historian and photographer William Johnston visited multiple
locations across Fukushima, creating 200 transformative color
photographs that document the irradiated landscape, accentuated by
Eiko's poses depicting both the sorrow and dignity of the land. The
book also includes essays and commentary reflecting on art,
disaster, and grief. "By placing my body in these places, I thought
of the generations of people who used to live there. Now desolate,
only time and wind continue to move." - Eiko Otake "This book is of
people who had lived in Fukushima and had to leave, and of people
who had died there before the disaster. This book is of Fukushima,
of a dancer, of a performance, of a gaze. A gaze of a dancer, of
time, and of a photographer. And this book is of you, your gaze.
When you take time to look at and look into each photograph, we
hope it becomes a performance for you and with you, of Fukushima.
By witnessing events and places, we actually change them and
ourselves in ways that may not always be apparent but are
important. Through photographing Eiko in these places in Fukushima,
we are witnessing not only her and the places themselves, but the
people whose lives crossed with those places." - William Johnston
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