David Steindl-Rast

David Steindl-Rast (2004)

David Steindl-Rast (* 12. July 1926 in Vienna ) is a from Austria originating American Benedictine monk , hermit , spiritual teacher and a leading global guest speaker.

Life

David Steindl-Rast's family comes from an originally aristocratic family with an ancestral castle near the pilgrimage site of Maria Rast in present-day Slovenia, from which the family takes its name. He himself grew up in Vienna, where he completed an art and psychology degree and also studied anthropology. After receiving his doctorate in psychology in 1952, he followed his family, who had previously emigrated to the USA. In 1953 he entered the recently founded Benedictine monastery Mount Savior in Elmira, NY . 1958/59 he was a post-doctoral fellow at Cornell University .

He has been practicing Zen since 1965 . In 1968 he was one of the founders of the Interfaith Center for Spiritual Studies . In 1975 he co-founded Sky Farm in Sonoma , California, of which he was a board member from 2002 to 2010. From 1970 he became involved in the House of Prayer movement in the USA and Canada.

In 1989, together with the Zen priest Vanja Palmers, he founded the House of Silence Puregg in Dienten am Hochkönig , a meeting place and center for spiritual practice and reflection. David Steindl-Rast advocates a pluralistic theology of religion, according to which neither Christianity nor any other religion are the “only true” mediators of salvation: Religions emerged in a specific cultural and historical context, and every religion can fulfill the same function.

David Steindl-Rast lived for many years when he was not on lecture tours, as a hermit a . a. near Mount Savior Monastery. Today he lives in the Benedictine community of the European monastery Gut Aich in St. Gilgen.

honors and awards

• 1975: Martin Buber Award , for his engagement in the dialogue of religions.

Publications

• Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer. An Approach to Life in Fullness. NJ Paulist Press, 1984, ISBN 0-8091-2628-1 .
  • German: Abundance and Nothing: Awakening to life from within. Herder, 3rd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-451-05653-6 .
• Belonging to the Universe. Explorations on the Frontiers of Science and Spirituality. (Co-author Fritjof Capra ). Harper, San Francisco 1990, ISBN 978-0-06250187-5 .
  • German: turning point in Christianity: perspectives for an enlightened theology. With Fritjof Capra and Thomas Matus. DTV, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-423-30371-9 .
• The Ground We Share. Everyday Practice, Buddhist and Christian. Co-author Robert Baker Aitken. Shambhala Publications, 1996, ISBN 1-57062219-1 .
  • The Spiritual Path : Zen Buddhism and Christianity in Daily Life. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-426-86117-8 .
• Music of Silence. A Sacred Journey through the Hours of the Day. Co-author Sharon LeBell. Ulysses Press, 1995, 2nd edition 2001, ISBN 1569752974 .
  • Music of silence: the Gregorian chants and the rhythm of life . Herder, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-06278-0 .
• Words of Common Sense for Mind, Body and Soul. Templeton Foundation Press, 2002, ISBN 1-89015198-X .
• A listening heart. The Spirituality of Sacred Sensuousness. Revised edition. Crossroad 1999, ISBN 0-82451780-6 .
  • Mindfulness of the heart. Herder, Freiburg i. Br. 2005 (new edition), ISBN 978-3-451-05604-8 .
• Common Sense Spirituality. Crossroad Publishing, 2008, ISBN 0-82452479-9 .
  • Common Sense: the wisdom that connects everyone. Claudius, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-532-62398-5 .
• Credo: A belief that connects everyone. Preface v. Dalai Lama . Herder, Freiburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-451-30356-2 .
• And I don't like to keep myself. About getting older and maturing. With poems by Rainer Maria Rilke and Josef von Eichendorff. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-7022-3184-2 .
• We believe that - spirituality for our time. (With Anselm Grün). Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2015, ISBN 978-3-89680-921-6 .
• Good day to you Photographer: Peter Umfahrer. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-7022-3549-9 .
• 99 names of god. Considerations. With 100 calligraphies by Shams Anwari-Alhosseyni. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-7022-3776-9 .

literature

• Rosemarie Primault, Rudolf Walter (Ed.): The eyes of my eyes are open: experiences of gratitude. With contributions by, among others, Ingrid Riedel , Willigis Jäger , Chungliang Al Huang, Joan Halifax, Bert Hellinger , Thich Nhat Hanh . Herder, Freiburg 2005, ISBN 978-3-451-29051-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://weltkloster.de/neues/2011/begegnung-mit-david-steindl-rast/
2. ↑ www.orf.at On the trail of secrets - Brother David Steindl-Rast and "The Power of Rituals"
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Brief portrait on Steindl's network gratefulness.org 
4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://www.puregg.at
6. ↑ It should be noted that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith rejects this pluralism in its declaration Dominus Iesus (2000) as incompatible with the Catholic faith.
7. ↑ https://www.dioezese-linz.at/news/2016/07/11/david-steindl-rast-ein-interreligioeser-brueckenbauer-wird-90

Web links

• Literature by and about David Steindl-Rast in the catalog of the German National Library
• Library - David Steindl-Rast OSB
• www.gratefulness.org/Deutsch Website of the A Network for Grateful Living (ANG * L) based on the ideas of David Steindl-Rast and like-minded people .
• radiokulturhaus.orf.at on the occasion of a lecture in Vienna, 2009.
• Site of the Mount Savior Monastery