Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging: Affirmations, Objections, Explorations

ISBN-13: 9780367597375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 240 str.

Gavin D'Costa; Ross Thompson

Opis

A growing number of people describe themselves as both Buddhist and Christian; but does such a self-description really make sense? Exploring the growing phenomenon of Buddhist-Christian dual belonging, a wide variety of authors including focus on three key questions: Can Christian and Buddhist accounts and practices of salvation be reconciled? Are

Spis treści

Introduction. Part I: Affirmations Chapter 1: Chasing Two Rabbits? Dual Belonging and the Question of Salvation/Liberation. Chapter 2: The Question of Salvation/Liberation: A Double-Belonger's Perspective. Chapter 3: Creation, Dependent Arising and Dual Belonging. Part II: Challenges Chapter 4: 'There Can Only Be One:' The Impossibility and Idolatry of 'Dual Belonging'. Chapter 5: The Ultimate Buddhist Religious Goal, Nirvana and its Implications for Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging. Chapter 6: A Roman Catholic approach to Buddhist-Catholic 'dual-belonging'.  Chapter 7: Dual Belonging, Ritual and the Spiritual Revolution.  Chapter 8: Strategies of Negotiation in Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging.  Part III: Explorations Chapter 9: An alternative concetion of multiple religious belonging: A Buddhist-Catholic perspective.  Chapter 10: The Buddhist Faith of Non-Buddhists: from dual belonging to dual attachment.  Chapter 11: Dual-belonging and Pure Land Buddhism.  Chapter 12: Going Beyond the Creator God: an Apophatic approach to Buddhist-Christian Dual Religious Belonging. Conclusion.

O autorze

Gavin D'Costa is author of seven books, most recently: Christianity and the World Religions. Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions; and Vatican II and the World Religions. He is an advisor to the Vatican, the Roman Catholic Bishops in England and Wales, and to the Church of England, Board of Mission on matters related to other religions. His interests lie in systematic and dogmatic theology, gender and psychoanalysis, and the Christian theology of interreligious dialogue.

Ross Thompson served for 20 years as a parish priest in Bristol, and taught doctrine and ethics at St Michael's, Llandaff and Cardiff University. His recent works include Buddhist Christianity: A Passionate Openness and A Wounded Wisdom: A Buddhist and Christian Response to Evil, Hurt and Harm. His main research interests are exploration of the interface between Christianity, Buddhism and science, and the development of a spirituality drawing on all three.