Zen Gifts to Christians. By Robert E. Kennedy. New York and London: Continuum, 2000. xii + 131 pp. 10 black and white drawings. $19.95 (cloth).

Robert Kennedy is one of only a handful of men who are, at one and the same time, Roman Catholic priests and Zen roshis. A roshi is an officially recognized, duly installed Zen Buddhist master. Zen Gifts to Christians is Kennedy's second book written on the boundary between Christianity and Buddhism, following his widely acclaimed Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit: The Place of Zen in Christian Life. The audience to which Zen Gifts to Christians is specifically addressed is "those Christians who are temperamentally inclined toward practicing Zen to ...