Christ the Eternal Tao
by Hieromonk Damascene
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Author: Hieromonk DamasceneIllustrator: Lou Shibai
Illustrator: You-Shan Tang
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-03-01
ISBN: 0938635859
Number of pages: 554
Publisher: Saint Herman Press
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Book Review: Truly Eastern Christianity
Summary: 5 Stars
I read "Christ the Eternal Tao" five or six years ago. I had become a severely disillusioned American Evangelical Protestant. I was in a great deal of emotional pain at that point in my life and had grown weary of pious platitudes and simplistic theology. I wanted a religion or philosophy that addressed suffering with some depth. I longed for beauty, simplicity,harmony, and silence. I found some in Zen and Taoism. I also discovered the Tao Teh Ching to be strangely trinitarian (the One gives birth to Three). That intrigued me.
Then I found "Christ the Eternal Tao". I actually cried while reading it. It showed Christ as the fulfillment of all mankind's deepest longings. It showed classic Chinese culture as having the simplicity, silence, beauty, etc. that I most craved. I discovered that I didn't have to label all other religions as completely false in order to believe in Christ. Every culture gets some things right. You have to build on what is true in any given situation.
It gave Christianity context. Believe it or not, I had never heard of Eastern Orthodoxy. I saw how the Greeks evangelized the Russians who evangelized the Chinese and the Alaskans. I saw the martyr connections between the churches. Christ was not painted as a westernized, blue-eyed person.
Christ says He is the Way. Tao is Way in Chinese. The humility of Taoism is profuoundly Christian. Lao Tzu wasn't wrong. He was prophetic. He saw through a glass darkly, as we all do. I had come full circle: converted by the Protestants, leaving that for the beauty and simplicity of Zen and Taoism, and returning to Christianity through the Eastern door. I had finally come home.
Summary of Christ the Eternal Tao
Not until now has the ancient wisdom of Lao Tzu been presented alongside the otherworldly revelation of Jesus Christ in a way that encompasses the full significance of both. Christ the Eternal Tao presents the Tao Teh Ching as a foreshadowing of what would be revealed by Christ, and Lao Tzu himself as a Far-Eastern prophet of Christ the incarnate God.Through heretofore unpublished translations and teachings of Gi-ming Shien -- perhaps the greatest Chinese philosopher to have ever come to the West -- this book uncovers the esoteric core of the Tao Teh Ching. Then, through the transmission of mystics of the ancient Christian East, Lao Tzu's teaching is brought into a new dimension, exploding with new meanings. Christ, in turn, is seen in a unique light, His pure image shining in the clarity of Lao Tzu's intuitive vision.
With its practical, time-tested advice on how to unite oneself with the incarnate Tao and acquire uncreated Teh, this is both a philosophical source-book and a spiritual manual, touching the heart and leading one to profound inward transformation. It is a long-awaited Answer to those who, having turned away from modern Western "churchianity," are drawn to the freshness, directness and simplicity of Lao Tzu, and at the same time are strangely, inexplicably drawn back to the all-compelling reality of Jesus Christ.
The book is adorned with Chinese calligraphy and seals (created especially for it by well-known Chinese artists), and with traditional Chinese paintings of the life of Christ.
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