In the company of friends : exploring faith and understanding with Buddhists and Christians /
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Language: | English |
Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, [2012] |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introductory Note
- List of Abbreviations
- I. The Quest for Religious Understanding With Theravada, Jodo Shinshu 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. Samvega 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
- Chapter 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