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The Experience of God

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In this beautiful meditation,Panikkar charts the paradoxes andpossibilities of our experience of God. Drawing on a wide range of sources,from the Bible and Western mysticsto the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita,he probes human language andsilence, adoration and alienation, tofind the root of all our experiencein God and its special character inChristian encounter with Jesus. He concludes with reflections on the many places - suchas love, joy, suffering, pardon, nature, silence, and evenevil - where we meet God today.
Raimon Panikkar is one of the world's leaders in interreligious dialogue and the author of more than thirty books. Professor Emeritus of Comparative Philosophy and History of Religion at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he has in retirement returned to his native Catalonia.
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