The New Creation in Christ: Christian Meditation and Community

by Bede Griffiths

The Hindu experience is a constant search for God, a search to find out the ultimate truth and ultimate reality and to experience it in the depth of the in this lucid and profound book, Bede Griffiths presents the Hindu tradition to Christians, asking them to encounter it and to relate it to the Christian experience of God.

111 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Bede Griffiths (1906-1993), born Alan Richard Griffiths and also known as Swami Dayananda (Bliss of Compassion), was a British-born Benedictine monk who lived in ashrams in South India. He was born at Walton-on-Thames, England and studied literature at Magdalen College, Oxford under professor and Christian apologist C. S. Lewis, who became a lifelong friend. Griffiths recounts the story of his conversion in 1931 to Roman Catholicism while a student at Oxford in his autobiography The Golden String.

Although he remained a Catholic monk he adopted the trappings of Hindu monastic life and entered into dialogue with Hinduism.

Griffiths was a proponent of integral thought, which attempts to harmonize scientific and spiritual world views. In a 1983 interview he stated,

"We're now being challenged to create a theology which would use the findings of modern science and eastern mysticism which, as you know, coincide so much, and to evolve from that a new theology which would be much more adequate."