In the Company of Friends : Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians.
Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Ithaca : State University of New York Press, 2012. |
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Table of Contents:
- In the Company of Friends
- In the Company of Friends
- Contents
- Foreword by Charles Hallisey
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory Note
- List of Abbreviations
- I: The Quest for Religious Understanding with Theravāda, Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists, and Christians
- Chapter 1: On Understanding Religious Men and Women
- Chapter 2: Truth and History in Interreligious Understanding: A Preliminary Inquiry
- Chapter 3: Interreligious Understanding as a Religious Quest
- II: The Dynamics of Faith and Beyond: Personally and in an Ever-Expanding Community
- Chapter 4: Saṃvega and the Incipient Phase of Faith
- Chapter 5: Shinjin More than "Faith"?
- Chapter 6: Celebrating Our Faith
- Chapter 7: Colloquia in Faith
- III: Converging Affirmations from Different Perspectives
- Chapter 8: "Relying Upon" or "Taking Refuge" as a Genuinely Human Activity
- Chapter 9: Love and Compassion as Given
- Chapter 10: Toward an Understanding of What Is Inconceivable
- Chapter 11: The Arising of Salvific Realization as Buddhists and Christians Have Affirmed
- Chapter 12: Relationality in Religious Awareness
- IV: Building from Our Past into Our Common Future
- Chapter 13: From Controversy to Understanding: More than a Century of Progress
- Chapter 14: Religion and the Imperatives for Development
- Chapter 15: Getting First Things First: Some Reflections on a Response by Venerable Ananda Maitreya
- Chapter 16: Translational Theology: An Expression of the Faith of Christians in a Religiously Plural World
- Chapter 17: Buddhists and Baptists: In Conversation into Our Common Future
- V: The Challenge of Our Future
- Cahpter 18: Will There Be Faith on Earth?
- Notes
- A Bibliographic Note on the Context of Origin and Subsequent Versions of the Chapters in this Volume
- Bibliography
- Index.