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Richard Rohr

OFM
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Born1943 (age 77–78)
Kansas, United States
Occupation
  • Author
  • spiritual writer
  • Franciscan friar
NationalityAmerican
Period1972–present
SubjectTheology
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Richard Rohr, OFM (born 1943), is an American author, spiritual writer,[1] and Franciscan friar based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[2] He was ordained to the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church in 1970. PBS has called him "one of the most popular spirituality authors and speakers in the world."[3]

Life and ministry[edit]

Rohr was born in Kansas in 1943. He received his master's degree in theology in 1970 from the University of Dayton.[4] He entered the Franciscans in 1961 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1970. He became founder of the New Jerusalem Community[5] in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1971[6] and the Center for Action and Contemplation (CAC) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1986[7][8] where he serves as founding director and academic dean of the Living School for Action and Contemplation.[9][10] The curriculum of Rohr's school is founded on seven themes developed by Rohr and explored in his book Yes, And....[11]

In his 2016 book The Divine Dance, Rohr suggests that the top-down hierarchy approach of western Christianity since Constantine has held ecumenical traditions back for centuries, and that the future of people of faith will have to be awakening to a bottom-up approach.[12] Rohr maintains what he would call prophetic positions, on the "edge of the inside" of a church that he sees as failing to transform people, and so increasingly irrelevant.[13][14] In a critique of Rohr published in the New Oxford Review, Fr. Bryce Sibley writes that Rohr asserts that God holds both the masculine and the feminine together rather than either or binary dualistic thinking and criticizes ecumenical religious rituals that focus on rules rather than the paramount centrality of relationship with God, and neighbor.[15]

In 2000, Rohr publicly endorsed Soulforce, an organization which challenges religion-based LGBTQ oppression through nonviolent protest.[16] In a 1999 essay, and afterwards, Rohr welcomes and affirms God's love for LGBTQ people, emphasizing that God asks the same of people in homosexual relationships as God asks of heterosexual ones: "truth, faithfulness, and striving to enter into covenants of continuing forgiveness of one another".[17][18]

In his teaching on Scripture, such as in his book Things Hidden, Rohr describes the biblical record as a human account of humanity's evolving experience with God, "the word of God in the words of people".[19] Rohr's book Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self suggests Jesus' death and resurrection is an archetypal pattern for the individual's movement from "false self" to "true self", from "who you think you are" to "who you are in God".[20] Rohr's 2014 book, Eager to Love, explores the key themes of Franciscan spirituality, which he sees as a "third way" between traditional orthodoxy and heresy, a way of focusing on the Gospel, justice, and compassion.[21]

Rohr emphasizes "alternative orthodoxy", a phrase the Franciscan tradition has applied to itself, referring to a focus on "orthopraxis"—a belief that lifestyle and practice are much more important than mere verbal orthodoxy,[22] which in itself is much overlooked in Catholic preaching today.[23][24] The Perennial Tradition,[25] or Perennial Philosophy, forms the basis of much of Rohr's teaching; the essential message of his work focuses on the union of Divine Reality with all things and the human potential and longing for this union. Rohr and other 21st century spiritual leaders explore the Perennial Tradition in the Center for Action and Contemplation's issue of the publication Oneing.[26]

Influences on Rohr outside of Christian sources include Buddhism and Hinduism, Gandhi, Carl Jung, Spiral Dynamics, and Integral Theory.[11]

Criticism[edit]

Some of Rohr's views have been criticized as unorthodox, as in a review of his book The Divine Dance by evangelical theologian Fred Sanders [27] on The Gospel Coalition website.

Also at The Gospel Coalition is a review of Rohr's The Universal Christ by Michael McClymond, professor of Modern Christianity at St. Louis University. McClymond asserts that, "Though Rohr wraps himself in the mantle of Catholic and Franciscan spirituality, much of what Rohr presents contradicts the teaching of the Catholic Church and historic Christianity."[28]

Ian Paul, an Anglican theologian, in a review of The Universal Christ, says, "I did not find a single biblical text which was cited with any plausibility; every single one was either misread, or taken out of context, or even cited with errors," and concludes that, "Rohr is leading us down some very odd paths and a long way from orthodox Christian faith at numerous points."[29]

Aquinas & More Catholic Goods, an online store based in Ft. Collins, Colorado, has refused to carry Rohr's books, citing a policy to "only carry product that is true to Catholic teaching," and alleging that "Fr. Rohr's ideas about salvation are heretical."[30]

Published works[edit]

Nonfiction[edit]

  • Wild Man's Journey: Reflections on Male Spirituality (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, ISBN 0-86716-279-1, 1986; Revised edition 1996)
  • Why Be Catholic?: Understanding Our Experience and Tradition (with Joseph Martos) (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 1989) ISBN 978-0-86716-101-4
  • Simplicity, Revised & Updated: The Freedom of Letting Go (1991, reissued by Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S.; 2nd New edition of Revised edition, 2004) ISBN 978-0-8245-2115-8
  • Near Occasions of Grace (Orbis Books (USA), 1993) ISBN 978-0-88344-852-6
  • Quest for the Grail: Soul Work and the Sacred Journey (1994, reissued by Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S.; New edition, 1997) ISBN 978-0-8245-1654-3
  • The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective (with Andreas Ebert) (1995, reissued by Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S., 2002) ISBN 978-0-8245-1950-6
  • Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount (with J. Feister) (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0-86716-203-5
  • Radical Grace: Daily Meditations (with John Bookser Feister, Editor) (1993, reissued by St. Anthony Messenger Press, 1996) ISBN 978-0-86716-257-8
  • The Good News According to Luke: Spiritual Reflections (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S., 1997) ISBN 978-0-8245-1490-7
  • Hope Against Darkness: The Transforming Vision of Saint Francis in a (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0-86716-440-4
  • Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S.; 2nd Revised edition, 2003) ISBN 978-0-8245-1995-7
  • Adam's Return: The Five Promises of Male Initiation (Crossroad Publishing Co, U.S., 2004) ISBN 978-0-8245-2280-3
  • Soul Brothers: Men in the Bible Speak to Men Today (with art by Louis S. Glanzman) (Orbis Books (USA), 2004) ISBN 978-1-57075-534-7
  • From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality (with Joseph Martos) (St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005) ISBN 978-0-86716-740-5
  • Job & the Mystery of Suffering (1996, reissued by Gracewing, 2006) ISBN 978-0-85244-308-8
  • Things Hidden: Scripture as Spirituality (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2008) ISBN 978-0-86716-659-0
  • Preparing for Christmas: Daily Meditations for Advent (Franciscan Media, 2008) ISBN 978-1-61636-478-6
  • The Naked Now: Learning to See as the Mystics See (The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2009) ISBN 978-0-8245-2543-9 [31]
  • Wondrous Encounters: Scripture for Lent (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-86716-987-4
  • A Lever and a Place to Stand: The Contemplative Stance, the Active Prayer (Paulist Press, 2010) ISBN 978-1-58768-064-9
  • Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps (Saint Anthony Messenger Press, 2011) ISBN 978-1-61636-157-0
  • Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (Jossey-Bass, 2011) ISBN 978-0-470-90775-7
  • A Companion Journal to Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (Jossey-Bass, 2013) ISBN 978-1-118-42856-6
  • Immortal Diamond: The Search for Our True Self (Jossey-Bass, 2013) ISBN 978-1-1183-0359-7 [32]
  • Yes, And...: Daily Meditations (Franciscan Media, 2013) ISBN 978-1-61636-644-5
  • Silent Compassion: Finding God in Contemplation (Franciscan Media, 2014) ISBN 978-1-61636-757-2
  • Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi (Franciscan Media, 2014) ISBN 978-161636-701-5
  • What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self (The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2015) ISBN 978-0824520397
  • A Spring Within Us: Daily Meditations (Center for Action and Contemplation, 2016) ISBN 978-1-62305-037-5
  • The Divine Dance: The Trinity and Your Transformation with Mike Morrell (Whitaker, 2016) ISBN 978-1629117294 [33]
  • Just This: Prompts and Practices for Contemplation (Center for Action and Contemplation, 2017)
  • The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For and Believe (Convergent Books, 2019) ISBN 9780281078622
  • The Wisdom Pattern: Order, Disorder, Reorder (Franciscan Media, 2020) ISBN 978-1632533463

Contributions[edit]

  • Foreword in Roots of Violence in the U.S. Culture: A Diagnosis Towards Healing by Richard Alain (Blue Dolphin Publishing, 1999) ISBN 978-1-57733-043-1
  • Foreword in Meal Stories: The Gospel of Our Lives by Kathleen Casey (Thomas More Association, 2000) ISBN 978-0-88347-495-2
  • "Sadness" in The Yale Journal for Humanities in Medicine, (October 11, 2004).[34]
  • The Franciscan Opinion in Stricken by God? Nonviolent Identification and the Victory of Christ, ed. by Brad Jersak and Michael Hardin (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008) ISBN 978-0-8028-6287-7)
  • 25 Books Every Christian Should Read, Julia L. Roller, ed. (HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 2011) ISBN 9780062098665
  • Hungry, and You Fed Me: Homilies and Reflections for Cycle C, Jim Knipper, ed. (Clear Faith Publishing, 2012)
  • God for Us: Rediscovering the Meaning of Lent and Easter, Greg Pennoyer, ed. (Paraclete Press, 2013) ISBN 978-1612613796
  • Naked, and You Clothed Me: Homilies and Reflections for Cycle A, Jim Knipper, ed. (Clear Faith Publishing, 2013)
  • Sick, and You Cared for Me: Homilies and Reflections for Cycle B, Jim Knipper, ed. (Clear Faith Publishing, 2014)
  • Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, ed. (The Golden Sufi Center, 2016) ISBN 978-1941394144
  • Foreword in The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz (Zondervan, 2017) ISBN 9781683666998

References[edit]

  1. ^ Paul Elie (May 21, 2018). "The Spiritual Nearness of Wim Wenders's "Pope Francis: A Man of His Word"". New Yorker.
  2. ^ Tippett, Krista (April 13, 2017). "Richard Rohr — Living in Deep Time". The On Being Project. Retrieved 2018-06-05.
  3. ^ "November 11, 2011 ~ Richard Rohr | November 11, 2011 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS". Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly. 2011-11-11. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  4. ^ "Richard Rohr | Teachers | Spirituality & Practice". www.spiritualityandpractice.com. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  5. ^ Taylor, Leon (January 1978). "Rohr on the cutting edge of the church". Retrieved February 2, 2015.
  6. ^ "Fr. Richard Rohr to speak at pro-life pilgrimage". March 14, 1982. Archived from the original on January 25, 2013. Retrieved August 7,2009.
  7. ^ Crum, Julie (November 16, 1986). "New kinds of church communities". Retrieved August 7, 2009.
  8. ^ "Franciscan Priest To Give Newman Center Lecture". Lexington Herald-Leader. November 4, 1989.
  9. ^ Manson, Jamie (2013). "The Living School". National Catholic Reporter.
  10. ^ Longhurst, Mark (September 19, 2014). "Learning Action and Contemplation at Richard Rohr's Living School Living School". Patheos Emerging Voices.
  11. ^ Jump up to:a b "Living School Lineage and Themes". Center for Action and Contemplation.
  12. ^ "Rohr Wants Christians to see the Trinity as a divine dance". Religion News Service.
  13. ^ "Life On The Edge: Understanding The Prophetic Position". Huffington Post. March 19, 2011.
  14. ^ "'Eager to Love': Author Q&A with Father Richard Rohr, O.F.M."America Magazine. 2014-08-06. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  15. ^ Sibley, Rev. Bryce (2006). "The Fr. Richard Rohr Phenomenon". New Oxford Review. Retrieved April 7, 2013.
  16. ^ Rohr, Richard. "Fr Richard Rohr's Letter of Endorsement". Soulforce. Retrieved October 23, 2011.
  17. ^ Huff, Gene (March 7, 2000). "Review: Debating homosexuality". The Christian Century.
  18. ^ Rohr, Richard (1999). "Where the Gospel leads us". In Wink, Walter (ed.). Homosexuality and Christian faith : questions of conscience for the churches. Fortress Press. ISBN 9780800631864.
  19. ^ Bell, Rob (July 17, 2014). "What is the Bible?".
  20. ^ "The Intricate Dance of Our True and False Selves". Englewood Review of Books. April 12, 2013.
  21. ^ Greene, Dana (July 23, 2014). "Seize the Franciscan moment, Rohr advises". National Catholic Reporter.
  22. ^ "The Franciscan Alternative Orthodoxy". Center for Action and Contemplation.
  23. ^ "Reclaiming Jesus event brings its message to the White House". National Catholic Reporter. 2018-05-25. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  24. ^ "Christian crowd vows to 'reclaim Jesus' from polarized U.S." Crux. 2018-05-26. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  25. ^ "The Perennial Tradition". Center for Action and Contemplation.
  26. ^ Holcomb, J.S. (2017). Christian Theologies of Salvation: A Comparative Introduction. NYU Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8147-6064-2. Retrieved June 5, 2018.
  27. ^ Sanders, Fred (2016-12-02). "Why I Don't Flow with Richard Rohr". The Gospel Coalition. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  28. ^ McClymond, Michael (2019-09-16). "'Everything is Christ' and Other Muddled Messages from Richard Rohr". The Gospel Coalition. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  29. ^ Paul, Ian (2019-04-10). "Is Richard Rohr's 'Universal Christ' Christian?". Psephizo. Retrieved 2020-02-23.
  30. ^ "Why We Don't and Won't Ever Carry Richard Rohr". Behind the Catholic Counter. 2011-03-16. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  31. ^ scienceandnonduality (2017-02-07), Christianity and Unknowing, Richard Rohr, retrieved 2018-08-06
  32. ^ Oprah & Author Richard Rohr: The Search For Our True Self, 2015-02-08, retrieved 2018-08-06
  33. ^ "Richard Rohr wants Christians to see the Trinity as a divine dance - Religion News Service". Religion News Service. 2016-10-19. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  34. ^ "YJHM: Fr. Richard Rohr, "Sadness"". yjhm.yale.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-06.

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숲은 우리가 일궈야 할 미래 / Forest is our future
천인합일(天人合一), 즉 인간이 자연과 하나가 되는 이 사상은 동양사상의 기초이며
자연정복을 위주로 한 서양문화와 대칭되는 동양 특유의 문화다.
환경파괴를 막고 지구를 살리는 방법은 동양의 천인합일 정신 밖에 없다.
- 당대 중국 최고 석학으로 인정받은 지신린 (季羨林) 북경대학교 교수 -



글∙사진 권병현 한중문화청소년미래숲 대표

하늘과 맞선 큰 대가, 황사

본래 인간은 천인합일(天人合一), 즉 자연과 인간이 하나로 공존하는 원리를 믿어왔습니다. 그러나 몇 세기 전부터 서양문명과 기계론적 우주관이 세상에 퍼졌고, 자연은 인간의 무한욕망을 달성하기 위한 수단으로 전락하기 시작했습니다. 산업의 발달은 인간의 유일한 삶의 터전인 지구를 파괴하고 자연의 균형을 깨뜨리고 있는데 우리가 체감할 수 있는 가장 큰 피해가 바로‘황사’입니다. 중국대사이던 시절인 1999년 4월 5일 식목일을 맞아 베이징에 사는 한국인들과 근교 황무지 밀운지역에 무작정 나무를 심었습니다. 한국인들이 중국 땅에 나무를 심는 이유가 무엇이냐는 중국 기자들의 질문에“베이징에서 접한 황사를 오늘 서울에 사는 내 딸이 접했다는 마당에 나무 심는 일에 네 땅 내 땅 구별이 어딨냐?”고 답한 것이 중국 언론에 큰 반향을 일으켰습니다. 그 후 밀운지역에는 매년 봄 한국인들이 나무를 심어 최초의‘한중우의림’이 조성되었고, 지금은 중국인들이 자주 찾는 식수조림 시범단지가 됐습니다. 임기를 마치고 서울로 돌아온 저는‘한중문화청소년협회(미래숲)’란 비정부단체(NGO)를 만들어 2002년 3월 제1회‘한중미래숲녹색봉사단’을 중국에 파견했습니다. 자연 스스로의 재해가 아닌 우리 스스로가 자초해 만들어낸 최대의 재앙 황사, 이 재앙을 극복하는데 힘을 보태고자 했습니다

자연을 돌이키기 위한 끝없는 도전

올해로 벌써 10년째, 필자는 황사 및 사막화 방지용 방풍림 건설사업에 매진해왔습니다. 길다면 길고 짧다면 짧은 10년이지만 처음 이 일을 시작했을 때를 생각하면 앞으로 나아갈 길에 대한 두려움이 사라집니다. 중국의 공무원, 공산당 간부, 언론인 등 지도층 인사들을 만나 황사의 심각성을 설명하며 양국이 공동으로 대처해보자고 설득했으나 중국 당국은 수년이 지나도록 적극적인 협력 태세를 보이기는커녕 일각에서는 왜 외국인이 나서냐고 비아냥거리기도 했습니다. 또한 사막의 특성상 실현 불가능한 일이라는 전문가들의 고정관념에 맞서야했습니다. 우리의 주장은 간단한 논리입니다. 사막의 최전선을 막지 못하면 이미 사막화가 확대되고 있는 북경과 천진부근은 어찌할 것입니까. 황사가 시도 때도 없이 한국에 불어와도 좋단 말인가요. 방법은 단 하나, 나무를 심어 사막지대를 녹색지대로 바꾸는 것뿐입니다. 그렇게 뜻을 굽히지 않고 일을 추진한 결과, 3~4년 전부터 미래숲이 만든 방풍림이 사막화의 진행 속도를 둔화시키고 황사 발생 규모도 일부 감소시키는 등의 성과를 보이기 시작했습니다. 이를 본 공청단, 국가임업국 등 중국 당국도 움직이기 시작했습니다. 자연은 서서히 그러나 위대한 모습으로 돌아오고 있습니다. 관대한 자연은 좋은터전을 사막으로 만든 못난 인간을 용서하고 있는 것일까요.

녹색꿈을 실현할 천인합일의 시작, 숲 만들기

하지만 이러한 부분적인 대응으로 사막화 속도를 다소 늦출 수는 있겠지만 지구촌 전체의 적극적인 대응이 없는 한 한계가 있습니다. 한국,중국, 일본, 러시아, 북한 등 역내 국가가 참여하는 범지구적인 협조가 있어야 함은 물론 녹색장성 사업은 단기에 효과를 보기 어려운 만큼 현세대와 후세대로 이어지는 세대 간의 협력도 필요합니다. 하지만 무엇보다 중요한 것은 지구와 인간이다. 함께 살아남을 수 있느냐 하는 갈림길에서 우리는 지구와 인간의 관계를 다시금 정립해야 합니다. 천인합일(天人合一), 이것이 인간과 자연이 조화롭게 서로 돕고 살 수 있는 유일한 길입니다. 오늘도 꿈을 꿉니다. 미래의 우리 아이들이 맑은 공기를 마시며, 드넓은 초원에서 뛰노는 꿈을 말이죠. 인류 문명의 앞에는 숲이 있고 문명의 뒤에는 사막이 있습니다. 저와 미래숲은 후대에게물려줄‘자연’이라는 아름다운 선물을 위해, 우리의 미래를 짊어질 인재들과 함께 사막에 가서 나무를 심고 또 심을 것입니다.


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