BIBLIOGRAPHY
In this section we try to be as exhaustive as possible regarding the
writings of Bede Griffiths. The secondary sources mentioned are only those
made use of for this study.
Books by B. Griffiths
The Golden String: An Autobiography. Illinois: 1954, 1980.
(Ed.) India
and the Eucharist.
Ernakulam: 1964.
Christian Ashram. London: 1966.
Christ in India
:
Essays Towards a Hindu-Christian Dialogue.
Illinois: 1966, 1984 (A revised edition of Christian
Ashram).
(Tr. into English) Book of Common Prayer of the Syrian Church,
Vagamon : Kuri_umala
Ashram, 1968
Ved_nta and Christian Faith. California: 1973. Also Ved_nta and
Christian Faith (Swamikkunnu
Pillai lectures.1968) Dehra
Dun: Uttrakhand Press, s.a.
Return to the Center. Illinois: 1976.
Die Rückkehr zur Mitte – Das Gemeinsame Östlicher und Westlicher
Spiritualität. München: 1987.
The Marriage of East and West
:
A Sequel to the Golden String.
Illinois: 1982.
Die Hochzeit von Ost und West – Hoffnung für die Menschheit.
Salzburg: 1983.
The Cosmic Revelation: The Hindu Way to God.
Illinois: 1983.
(ATC, Bangalore: 1995).
River of Compassion: A Christian Commentary on the Bhagavad
Gita.
Illinois: 1988. (New York: Continuum: 1995).
Christianity
in the Light of the East.
Illinois, London: 1989.
A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and
Christian Faith.
F. Edwards. (ed.) Illinois: 1990.
Die neue Wirklichkeit – Westliche Wissenschaft, Östliche Mystik
und Christlicher Glaube.
Grafing: 1990.
The New Creation in Christ: Christian Meditation and Community.
R. Kiely & L. Freeman. (eds.) London: 1992. (Dartman,
Longman & Todd, 1977).
Universal Wisdom
:
In the Scriptures of Hinduism
,
Buddhism
,
Taoism
,
Sikhism, Islam
,
Judaism
and Christianity
.
R.
Ropers
. (ed.) San Francisco: 1993. Universal
Wisdom: A
Journey Through the Sacred Wisdom of the World.
HarperCollins. 1994.
The Universal Christ: Daily Readings with Bede Griffiths.
P. Spink.
(ed.) London: 1993.
(Modern Spirituality Series). Bede Griffiths. Templegate. 1993.
A Human Search: Reflection on My Life. John Swindells (ed.),
Wayne Teasdale. Liguori. 1996.
Articles and Published Lectures by B. Griffiths
"The Power of Imagination." 1930s. Unpublished manuscript.
"The Power of Intuition." 1930s. Unpublished Manuscript.
"The Process of Knowledge." 1930s. Unpublished Manuscript.
"The Poetry of St. Benedict." Pax 25 (August 1935)
101-106.
"St. Justin
's Apology." Pax 27
(March 1937) 289-293.
"A Pilgrimage to Jerusalem." Pax 28 (1938) 7-11, 30-35.
"The Mysticism of Mary Webb." Pax 28 (October 1938)
161-165.
"Integration." Pax 28 (November 1938) 185-189.
"The Church of England
and Reunion." Pax 29
(1939) 36-46.
"The Poetry of the Bible." Pax 29 (1939) 124-128.
"Christian Democracy." Pax 29 (1939) 255-262.
"The Platonic Tradition and the Liturgy." Eastern Churches
Quarterly
4/1 (January 1940) 5-8.
"The New Creation." Pax 36 (1946) 15-23.
"Pluscarden: September 8th." Pax (1946) 111-113.
"The City of God." Catholic Mind 49 (1948) 410-413.
"The Mystery of Sex and Marriage." Pax 39 (1949) 77-80.
"Catholicism To-day." Pax (1950) 11-16.
"The Priesthood and Contemplation." The Life of the Spirit
5
(April
1951) 439-1446.
"The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer." The Life of the
Spirit
6/62-63 (August-September 1951) 77-85.
"Liturgical Formation in the Spiritual Life." The Life of
the Spirit
6/69 (March 1952) 361-368.
"The Mystery of the Scriptures." The Life of the Spirit
7/74-75
(August – September 1952) 67-75.
"Swiss Monasteries." Pax 42 (1952) 166-172.
"The Divine Office as a Method of Prayer." Theology Digest
1
(1952) 42-22.
"A Catholic Commentary on Holy Scripture." Pax 43 (1953)
76-
78.
"Christian Existentialism." Pax 43 (1953)141-145.
"The Cloud on the Tabernacle." The Life of the Spirit
7/83 (May
1953) 478-486.
"The Enigma of Simone Weil." Blackfriars 34/398 (May
1953)
232-236.
"Monks and the World." Blackfriars 34/404 (November
1953) 496-
501.
"The Incarnation and the East." The Commonweal
59/12
(December 25, 1953) 298-301.
"On Reading Novels." Pax 44 (1954) 124-128.
"The Transcendent Unity of Religions." The Downside
Review
72/229 (July 1954) 264-275.
"Our Lady and the Church in the Scriptures." Liturgy 23
(1954)
87-92.
"The Meaning of the Monastic Life." Pax 45 (1955)
132-137.
"Experiment in Simplicity." The Commonweal 61/18
(February 4,
1955) 471-474.
"For a Hindu Catholicism." The Tablet 205/6000
(May 21, 1955)
494-495.
"Fulfillment
for the East." The
Commonweal 63/3 (October 21,
1955) 55-58.
"The Missionary Today." The Commonweal 64/4
(April 27, 1956)
90-92.
"The Taena Community." Pax 46 (1956) 112-115.
"Kerala
." Pax 47 (1957)
90-94.
"Vinoba Bhave." Blackfriars 38 (1957) 66-71.
"Symbolism and Cult." Indian
Culture and the Fullness of Christ.
Madras: 1957.
"Catholicism and the East." The Commonweal 68/1 (June
13, 1958)
271-274.
"Experiment in Monastic Life." The Commonweal 68/26
(September 26, 1958) 634-636.
"Kuri_umala
Ashram." Pax 48
(1958) 128-133.
"John Cassian." The Month 21/6 (June 1959) 346-362.
"The People of India
." The Commonweal 71/4
(October 23, 1959)
95-98.
"Role of the Layman." The Commonweal 71/5 (October 30,
1959)
119-121.
"Eastern and Western Traditions in the Liturgy." The Clergy
Monthly
Supplement 4 (1959) 223-228.
"An Ecumenical Movement in Kerala
." The Star of the
East 21
(1960) 10-12.
"An Ecumenical Movement in Kerala
." Arunodayam 16
(1960) 18-
19.
"The Church Universal: Efforts Toward Reunion." The
Commonweal 71/14
(January 1, 1960) 387-390.
"The Language of a Mission." Blackfriars 41/478
(January-
February 1960) 2-27.
"Liturgy and the Missions." Asia 12 (1960) 148-154.
"Liturgie in den Missionen." Kairos 1 (1960) 39-44.
"The Kerala
Story." The
Commonweal 71/26 (March 25, 1960)
692-694.
"Walking with Vinoba." The Commonweal 73/1 (September
30,
1960) 364-372.
"A Letter from India
." The Life of the
Spirit
15/172 (October 1960) 178-182.
"Hinduism
and Christianity
in India
." Blackfriars
41/485 (October
1960)364-372.
"The Seed and the Soil." Good Work 3 (1960) 59-64.
"The New Creation." Sponsa Regis 31 (1960) 223-230.
"The Ideal of an Indian
Catholicism." The
Examiner 111 (1960)
425.
"Indian
Catholicism and Hindu
Culture." The Examiner 111 (1960)
633-634.
"Three Roads to Unity." The Commonweal 73/26 (March 24,
1961)
651-53.
"Non-violence and Nuclear War." Blackfriars 42/490
(April 1961)
157-162.
"Non-violence and Nuclear War." Bhoodan 6 (1961) 6-7.
"Non-violence and Nuclear War." Pax Bulletin 86 (1961)
1-3.
"The Ecumenical Approach to Non-Christian Religions." The
Catholic World
193/1157 (August 1961) 304-309.
"The Contemplative Life in India
." Pax 51 (1961)
105-111.
"The Goal of Evolution." Sponsa Regis 32 (1961) 125-134.
"Paradise Lost." Sponsa Regis 32 (196l) 210-219.
"The Promised Land and Paradise Regained." Sponsa Regis
32
(1961) 278-288.
"The World Council and the Syrian Church." The Star of the
East
22 (1961) 55-59.
"The Church Universal." The Star of the East 22 (1961)
16-22.
"The Ecumenical Movement in the Roman Catholic Church
." Arunodayam 17
(1961) 17-18.
"The Birth of Christ in India
." The Examiner 112
(1962) 783.
"Gandhi
's
India
, Mao's China
." The Commonweal 77/12
(December 14, 1962) 309-312.
"Meeting at Rajpur." The Clergy Monthly Supplement 6
(1962)
137/151.
"The Challenge of India
." Good Work 25
(1962) 82-87.
"The Meeting of East and West." Good Work 26 (1963)
100-109.
"Report from India
." Jubilee 11/1
(May 1963) 2-3.
"Christian Witness
in India
: Ways of Knowing God."
Lecture given
on `The Catholic Hour' radio programme (November 10,
1963). Washington, D.C.: 1963.
"The Church and Hinduism
." Jubilee 11/7
(November 1963) 30-35.
"Placing Indian
Religion." Blackfriars
44/521 (November 1963)
477-481.
"The Church of the Future." The Examiner 114 (1963)
821-822.
"Liturgy and Culture." The Tablet 218/6471 (May
30, 1964) 602-
603.
"Background to Bombay." The Month 32/6 (December
1964) 313-
318.
"Kuri_umala
Ashram." The Eastern
Churches Quarterly 16/3
(1974) 226-231.
"The Vatican Council." The Star of the East 25 (1964)
9-12.
"Indian
Spirituality and the
Eucharist." India
and the Eucharist.
B.
Griffiths. (ed.) Ernakulam: 1964. 9-18.
"Dialogue with Hinduism
." The Clergy Monthly
Supplement 7
(1964) 144-149.
"The Ecumenical Approach to the Missions." India
14
(1964) 64-
67.
"India
after the Pope." The
Commonweal 81/20 (February 12,
1965) 641-642.
"The Dialogue with Hinduism
." New Blackfriars
46/538 (April
1965) 404-410.
"The Church and Non-Christian Religions." The Tablet 219/6552
(December 18, 1965) 1409-1410.
"The Ecumenical Approach to Hinduism
." The Examiner 116
(1965) 505.
"Light on C.S. Lewis
." The Month 35/6
(June 1966) 337-341.
"Monastic Life in India
Today." Monastic
Studies 4 (Advent 1966)
117-135.
"The Declaration on the Church and Non-Christian Religions." The
Examiner 117
(1966) 117, 122.
"The Dialogue with Hindus." The Examiner 117 (December
17,
1966) 821-822.
"The Sacred Cow." The Commonweal 85/197 (February 3,
1967)
483-484.
"The Christian Doctrine of Grace and Freewill." The Mountain
Path
(April 1967) 124-128.
"The New Creation." The Examiner 118 (1968) 809.
& Saran, A.K. "Further, Towards a Hindu-Christian
Dialogue." The
Clergy Monthly
32/5 (May 1968) 213-220.
"Forest of Peace in South India
." The Tablet 223/6716
(February
8, 1969) 130-132.
"The Meeting of Religions." The Tablet 223/6745 (August
30,
1969) 856.
"St. Benedict in the Modern World." Pax 59 (1969) 77-79.
"The Ecumenical Situation in Kerala
Today." The Malabar
Church: Symposium in Honor of Rev. Placid Podipara
C.M.I.
J. Vellian. (ed.) Rome: 1970. 307-310.
"Man and God in India
." The Tablet 225/6813
(January 2, 1971)
5-6.
"Indian
Christian
Contemplation." The Clergy Monthly 7/35
(August 1971) 277-281.
"Where World Religions Meet." The Tablet 226/6877 (April
1,
1972) 314-315.
"Eastern Religious Experience." Monastic Studies 9
(Autumn 1972)
153-160.
"Salvation in India
." The Tablet 226/6912-6913
(December 23, 30
1972) 1221.
"Erroneous Beliefs and Unauthorised Rites." The Tablet 227/6928
(April 14, 1973) 356, 521.
"The Source of Indian
Spirituality." Indian
Spirituality in Action.
R.B. Pinto. (ed.) Bangalore: 1973, 63-67.
"The One Mystery." The Tablet 228/6975 (March 9, 1974)
223.
"Experience of God and External World in Asian Religions."
Cistercian Studies
9 (1974) 273-276.
"Kuri_umala
and Indian
Monasticism." Kuri_umala:
A Symposium
on Ashram Life.
M.F. Acharya. (ed.) Bangalore: 1974, 37-
42.
"Swami Parama Arubi Ananda." Kuri_umala
:
A Symposium on
Ashram Life.
M.F. Acharya. (ed.) Bangalore: 1974, 65-67.
"Shantivanam: A New Beginning." Kuri_umala
:
A Symposium on
Ashram Life.
M.F. Acharya. (ed.) Bangalore: 1974, 75-76.
"The Future of Christian Monasticism in India
." Kuri_umala
:
A
Symposium on Ashram Life.
M.F. Acharya. (ed.)
Bangalore: 1974 110-113.
"The Universal Truth
." The Tablet 229/7023
(February 1, 1975)
101-102, 347.
"Revelation and Experience." The Tablet 229/7023
(February 8,
1975) 136-137 & 167-168.
"Indianisation." The Examiner 126/19 (May 10, 1975) 233.
"Indianisation of Liturgy." The New Leader 65 (May 25,
1975) 7.
"Non-Christian Scriptures in Liturgy." The New Leader 65
(June 15, 1975) 78.
"The Benefits of Indianisation." The New Leader 65 (July
6, 1975)
4, 9.
"Unity and Diversity." The Tablet 229/7047a (July 26,
1975) 9.
"Shantivanam." The Spirit
and Life
70 (1975) 24-27.
"Dialogue with Hinduism
." Impact 11 (May
1976) 152-157.
"Village Religion in India
." The Tablet 230/7098
(July 24, 1976)
726-727.
"Dear Thomas Again." The Tablet 230/7105 (September 11,
1976)
879-880.
"The Indian
Spiritual Tradition and the
Church in India
." Outlook
15/4 (Winter 1976) 98-104.
"A Christian Ashram." Vaidikamitram 9 (1976) 14-20.
"Shantivanam: An Explanation." Vaidikamitram 9 (1976)
44-48.
"An Open Letter to Father
Anastasius Gomes." Vaidikamitram
9
(1976) 67-70.
"The Laity Congress." The Examiner 127 (1976) 381.
"The Vedic Revelation." The Tablet 231/7165 (November 5,
1977)
1053-1054.
"Communion in Hand." The Examiner 128 (1977) 280.
"The Mystical Dimension of Theology." Indian
Theological Studies
14 (1977) 229-246.
"Christian Monastic Life in India
." Journal of Dharma
3/2 (April-
June 1978) 123-135.
"Intercommunion Now." The Tablet 232/7200 (July 8, 1978)
660-
661.
"In Filial Disobedience." New Blackfriars 59/701
(October 1978)
463-466.
"The Advaitic Experience and the Personal God in the Upani
ads
and the Bhagavad Gita." Indian
Theological Studies 15
(1978) 71-86.
"The Monastic Order and the Ashram." American Benedictine
Review
30/2 (June 1979) 134-145.
"The Search for God." The Tablet 233/7251 (June 30,
l979) 620-
621.
"Mystical Theology in the Indian
Tradition." Jeevadhara
9/53
(September-October 1979) 262-277.
"The Birth in a Cave." The Tablet 233/7276-7277
(December 22,
29, 1979) 1252.
"Benedictines in India
." The Examiner 131/12
(March 22, 1980)
178-79.
"Death into Life." The Tablet 234/7299 (May 31, 1980)
520-521.
"Saint Bededict: His Signif
icance for India
Today." Vidyajyoti
–
Journal of Theological Reflection 44/9 (October 1980) 432-
436.
"The Two Theologies." The Tablet 234/7324 (November 22,
1980)
1145-1146.
"Quest for Truth
and Authentic Living." Akasavani
45 (1980) 13-
14.
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