In the company of friends : exploring faith and understanding with Buddhists and Christians /

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Author / Creator: Carter, John Ross.
Format: Book
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