Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World
with a little help from Nagarjuna
This book draws upon the Mahayana philosophy developed within Buddhism, employing it as a means to empty our usual alternatives for viewing the world's many religions--whether exclusivism, inclusivism, or pluralism. The aim is to free people from clinging to intellectual positions, enabling them gently but committedly to affirm their vernacular tradition as it is practiced on the ground. It critiques the above three options, and introduces the Mahayana philosophy of emptiness and dependent arising, along with its distinction between ultimate truth and conventional truth. It then applies this philosophy to an urgent question that bedevils mode…
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Weitere Autoren: Lea, Sydney / Davis, Lansing / Smith, Buster G.
- ISBN: 978-1-4982-7494-4
- EAN: 9781498274944
- Produktnummer: 30240379
- Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'374 KB
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John P. Keenan is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College and a priest of the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. His publications include I Am / No Self: A Christian Reading of the Heart Su; The Gospel of Mark: A Mahayana Reading; The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology; and A Study of the Buddhabhumyupadesa: The Doctrinal Development of the Notion of Wisdom in Yogacara Thought.
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