Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Thought - Softcover

Raimon Panikkar: A Companion to his Life and Thought is a guide to the life, work and thought of Raimon Panikkar, a self-professed Buddhist-Christian-Hindu philosopher and theologian. A man of deep and wide learning and an extremely prolific author, Panikkar is equally at home in various religious and cultural traditions and embodies in himself the ideals of intercultural, intrareligious, and interreligious dialogues. This book explicates Panikkar's basic vision of life as the harmonious rhythm of divinity, humanity, and the cosmos, which he terms "cosmotheandrism," and shows how it permeates and illumines his articulations of the central Christian doctrines. Given the complexity and difficulty of Panikkar's thought this book is a welcome companion for a course on Panikkar and for a general reader who wishes to understand one of the most profound and orginal thinkers of our time.

Peter C. Phan is the inaugural holder of the Ignacio Ellacuria Chair of Catholic Social Thought at Georgetown University. He is the author/editor of more than 30 books and 300 essays on theology and philosophy. He is currently researching migration and its impact on Christian theology. Young-chan Ro is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of Korean Studies Center at George Mason University. He completed his doctoral studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara where he studied under Raimon Panikkar. He has written and edited volumes in Confucianism and also specialized in comparative religion, Confucian-Christian dialogue, and published numerous articles on Raimon Panikkar.