David Steindl-Rast OSB was born on July 12,1926 and is an Austrian-American Catholic Benedictine monk, author, and lecturer.
10 Facts About David Steindl-Rast
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David Steindl-Rast is committed to interfaith dialogue and has dealt with the interaction between spirituality and science.
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David Steindl-Rast was recruited into the German army but did not see combat.
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David Steindl-Rast received his MA degree from the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and his PhD in experimental psychology from the University of Vienna.
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David Steindl-Rast emigrated with his family to the United States in the same year and became a Benedictine monk in 1953 at Mount Saviour Monastery in Pine City, New York, a newly founded Benedictine community.
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David Steindl-Rast spent half the year as a hermit in a monastery and spent the other half lecturing and giving workshops and retreats.
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David Steindl-Rast's experience around the world and with the world's various religions convinced him that the human response of gratitude is a part of the religious worldview and is essential to all human life.
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David Steindl-Rast co-founded the Center for Spiritual Studies with Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and Sufi teachers in 1968, and since the 1970s has been a member of the cultural historian William Irwin Thompson's Lindisfarne Association.
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David Steindl-Rast received the Martin Buber Award for his achievements in building dialog among religious traditions.
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David Steindl-Rast's writings include Gratefulness, the Heart of Prayer, The Music of Silence, Words of Common Sense and Belonging to the Universe.