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Title: Neither cold not hot, but lukewarm..
Review: I had high hopes for this book when I saw it in a bookstore. But it is largely disappointing -- the author simply doesn't muster enough intellect when he compares Christianity to Zen Buddhism and finds them similar. Sometimes he is writing a memoir, sometimes a comparative study, and sometimes a religious history: mostly he just points out superficial similarities in the Zen Buddhist and Christian (here Catholic and Orthodox) traditions. He seems more of a Zen student, with his faith in human perfectibiity through meditation, than a Christian of any sort, and most of his history is speculation.
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