In Search of a Prophet
A Spiritual Journey with Kahlil Gibran
Zusammenfassung
“A profound spiritual exploration into the life and work of the beloved poet Kahlil Gibran, a much-needed guide for our times.” –Reza Aslan, author of Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
In Search of a Prophet is a fascinating journey through the spiritual life of Kahlil Gibran, the great Lebanese-American poet and author of The Prophet, a book originally published in 1923 that has sold over 10 million copies and been translated into dozens of languages. Capturing our imaginations and enriching our spirits, Paul-Gordon Chandler explores this beloved writer and artist, a celebrated mystic who sought to build bridges and tear down walls and who remains a cultural icon among all people of goodwill. This is not a traditional biography but a compelling spiritual journey through Gibran’s writings, art, and the places he lived. From Gibran’s birthplace village high in the snowy mountains of Lebanon, Chandler leads us through his immigration to Boston, art training in Paris, and career in New York, and to the far-reaching places of influence his writings and art have traveled, alerting readers to Gibran’s continuing relevance for today.
This paperback edition, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Prophet, includes a foreword by Bishop Michael B. Curry, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, as well as a new preface by the author.
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Lebanon spirituality- Kapitel Ausklappen | EinklappenSeiten
- i–xviii Preface i–xviii
- 1–8 Introduction 1–8
- 133–156 Chapter 8. The Wanderer 133–156
- 157–160 Acknowledgments 157–160
- 161–172 Notes 161–172
- 173–180 Index 173–180
- 181–182 About the Author 181–182
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- „... to the Middle East. As a Middle Easterner living in the West, Kahlil sought to reintroduce Jesus as ...” „... one who was born, lived, and died in the Middle East—a Jesus who first walked the Middle Eastern ...” „... . In the Middle East I have met Muslim imams who through their personal study of the Gospels, the Injil ...”
- „... city’s East Asian community. Kahlil’s mother began selling lace and linens door to door to Boston’s ...” „... identity that would later enable him to artistically and spiritually bridge the worlds of East and West.The ...” „... as I drove to visit the Gibran Khalil Gibran Garden, on the way to East Beirut, where Kahlil had ...”
- „... : smoking, heavy coffee drinking, skipping meals, drinking arak (the strong anise-based Middle East-ern ...” „... that seeketh neither east nor west, a be-wildered fragment from a burnt planet?2 By the time the First ...” „... , a small brass chalice, an easel, and a tapestry of an Eastern Christ hung on the wall above an ...”
- „... acceptance.”3Kahlil wrote for both the East and the West, presenting a non-sectarian vision of our world and ...” „... INTRODUCTION 3traditions in the Middle East and shared them with the West. The curator of the Soumaya Museum ...” „... “em-blematic poet and thinker who put together East and West through his spiritual sensitivity.”Despite the ...”
- „... hear.—KAHLIL GIBRAN, THE PROPHET1St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery in Manhattan’s East Village is the oldest site ...” „... boundaries of traditional Christian beliefs and exploring Eastern spirituality.92 IN SEARCH OF A ...” „... of the Eastern and Western influences of his life, a faith had THE PROPHET 95emerged that ...”
- „... ancient Baalbek farther east.Thanks to his mother, Kahlil was taught the biblical stories, which captured ...” „... preserve their ancient Eastern Syriac liturgy and the right of their priests to marry. Toughened from ...” „... during the civil war separating Mus-lim West Beirut from Christian East Beirut. Just a year after the ...”
- „... East.—HENRI MATISSE, 1947I am indebted to many individuals and institutions dur-ing the journey of writing ...” „... through his life, writings, and friendship. He is also the most effective East-West bridge builder I have ...” „... known.To my friends throughout the Middle East and North Africa, my heart’s home, for their endless ...”
- „... . Along the banks of the ancient Nile, Cairo is often referred to as the “capital of the Middle East” due ...” „... Christian community in the Middle East, the ancient Coptic Orthodox Church, numbering up to ten million ...” „... bridges between the cultures and creeds of the Middle East and the West. As the arts can be one of the ...”
- „... first visit the famous, now infamous and closed, Knoedler & Co. gallery on East 70th Street on the Upper ...” „... East Side. Founded in 1846, it was one of the oldest galleries in the United States. During Kahlil’s ...” „... and its Eastern flavor. Tagore, whom Kahlil would also have the op-portunity to meet some years later ...”
- „... after Easter 1931, Gibran lay dying. He refused to be taken to the hospital, and the following morning ...” „... heavily from his time in Paris onwards), and with a cup of thick Middle Eastern coffee by his side. His ...” „... East and the West and between their creeds and cultures, our day calls for a whole new kind of ...”
- „... , 126; Christ’s Head, 126; Eastern, 81. See also Jesuschurches: Church of the Beatitudes (Galilee), 123 ...” „... (Gibran), 135–36, 156 Easter, 141Egyptian Revolution, 49–50, 82Eliot, T. S., 74Ellis Island, 26essays ...” „... ; Europeanization of, 127–28; Life of Jesus (Renan), 116; as Middle Easterner, 113, 118–19, 127–29; of the Muslim ...”
- „... . An author, art curator, social entrepreneur and an authority on the Middle East and Africa, he is ...”
- „... : Writings from the Modern Middle East, November 2010, http://www ...”
- „... , focusing us on an eternal essence, continues to cross cultural and religious divides, East and West, and ...”