Is the personal God of Christianity compatible with the impersonal Infinite of the Vedanta? Are there points in common between the ex nihilo creation proposed by the Bible and the idea of Manifestation expressed by the Hindu texts? Can the historical perspective of the West be reconciled with the timelessness that presides over India's mystical quest? This brilliant and rigorous essay, written by a Cistercian monk, gives solid answers to these and other problems posed by the comparison between Christianity and Vedanta. Many studies have been devoted to comparing the philosophy of Vedanta with monotheism in general and with Christianity in particular, and these studies almost always take as reference, on the Christian side, to Master Eckhart. The present essay differs from the previous ones because it tries to underline the points of agreement between the Church and the Vedanta appea...read more