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Author : Gunapala Dharmasiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X002311328
Author : Gunapala Dharmasiri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 9971846098
Author : Fredericks, James L.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608333813
Buddhists and Christians examines Christian teachings about other religions to argue that the next step to dialogue is ""comparative theology."" Fredericks asks why the Buddha refused to engage in God-talk and suggests that understanding the answer to this question will help Christians and Buddhists to have better communication and to find that God reveals the way to mutual comprehension and deeper solidarity.
Author : Perry Schmidt-Leukel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351954372
Is the world created by a divine creator? Or is it the constant product of karmic forces? The issue of creation was at the heart of the classic controversies between Buddhism and Hindu Theism. In modern times it can be found at the centre of many polemical debates between Buddhism and Christianity. Is this the principal barrier that separates Buddhism from Christianity and other theistic religions? The contributions to Part One explore the various aspects of traditional and contemporary Buddhist objections against the idea of a divine creator as well as Christian possibilities to meet the Buddhist critique. Part Two asks for the potential truth on both sides and suggests a surprising way that the barrier might be overcome. This opens a new round of philosophical and theological dialogue between these two major traditions with challenging insights for both. Contributors: José I. Cabezón, John P. Keenan, Armin Kreiner, Aasulv Lande, John D'Arcy May, Eva K. Neumaier, Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Ernst Steinkellner.
Author : A. L. De Silva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : OCLC:294759981
Author : H. M. Vroom
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802840973
Christianity is no longer th dominant belief system in today's pluralistic culture. Eastern religions, esecially, have attracted wide interest. Pressing the theological and dialogical dimensions of religious pluralism, Vroom offers a broad study of the views of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam, especially their views on truth.
Author : Winston L King
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134565559
After a brief historical survey, the doctrines of dharma and karma are discussed and key elements that appear in contrasting forms in the two religions are examined. Originally published in 1963.
Author : Lynn A. Silva
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1979-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781349037292
Author : Steve Cioccolanti
Publisher : Monarch Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781854249562
Buddhism is not a way of harmony and cosmic unity, as Westerners tend to think. Although Buddhism is a rapidly rising religion in the West, few Westerners know what Buddhism is like from the inside. Steve, who made the journey from Buddhism to Christ, explains the Buddhist mind-set and worldview, and makes useful points of comparison.
Author : Alan Watts
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-06
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780307784339
"The perfect guide for a course correction in life" (Deepak Chopra) that teaches us how to enjoy a deeper, more meaningful relationship with the spiritual in our present troubled times. Drawing on his experiences as a former priest, Watts skillfully explains how the intuition of Eastern religion—Zen Buddhism, in particular—can be incorporated into the doctrines of Western Christianity, offering a timeless argument for the place of mystical religion in today’s world.
Author : Peter Chan
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780595322077
Soul, God, and Morality is meant to take care of two religious beliefs: in the existence of God or deities, and the persistence of persons as souls in a spiritual hereafter. In contrast with the normal kind of introduction to the philosophy of religion, it is light on the theism-atheism issue, but heavy-footed against the theory of spiritual souls. Among other things, what this book presents is one sustained and decisive argument against the belief that a person's consciousness and memory are carried by the soul capable of persisting into a spiritual hereafter. The author contends that for reason of the problem of unconsciousness, and for what is now known of correlations that exist between brain and mind, the soul theory in all its forms is not trustworthy. As to the existence of God and deities, he further contends that the only justifiable position to take is to remain agnostically silent. However, despite the speculative nature of religion, the author believes that the altruistic posture of certain religion 'founders' is yet to be respected. To do so might still be considered as religious in an agnostic (with respect to the supernatural) and soul-less (neuroscientific) world. But he also holds that the basis of morality is actually grounded within human nature itself. As such, there is no excuse for not trying to be moral.
Author : Paul F. Knitter
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780742489
An honest, unflinching tale of re-finding one's faith, from one of the world's most famous theologians Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian narrates how esteemed theologian, Paul F. Knitter overcame a crisis of faith by looking to Buddhism for inspiration. From prayer to how Christianity views life after death, Knitter argues that a Buddhist standpoint can encourage a more person-centred conception of Christianity, where individual religious experience comes first, and liturgy and tradition second. Moving and revolutionary, this book will inspire Christians everywhere.
Author : P. Koslowski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789401009997
All religions make statements about God or the Absolute and about "the beginning": about the beginning of the world and the beginning and nature of the human person. Propositions about God, the human person, and the world, statements about God's eternity or process of becoming, about the status and nature of the human person as the "image of God", and about the beginning of the world are woven into "religious speculations about the beginning". The theology, anthropology, and cosmology of the world religions determine the image of the human person and the image of the world in the world cultures shaped by the different religions. They stand in a tense relationship with the anthropologies and cosmologies of modern science, which in turn challenge the religions to deepen their image of the human person. With this volume leading thinkers of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam provide the reader with a first-hand source for understanding the five world religions and their teaching about God, the human person, and the origin of the world.
Author : J. Hick
Publisher : Springer
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1997-04-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780230390232
Hick gives a personal account of how he has come to accept religious pluralism - that the major world faiths are different but equally valid responses to ultimate Reality. He considers how much Christians have to learn from Buddhism, discusses the ongoing dialogue among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, and outlines a philosophy of religions - a conception of the relationship between world religions and between them and the ultimately Real. Finally he turns to the mystery of death and, using the resources of the world religions and of parapsychology, suggests a possible conception of life after death.
Author : Ross Thompson
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781780990859
It is possible to be a Christian Buddhist in the context of a universal belief that sits fairly lightly on both traditions. Ross Thompson takes especially seriously the aspects of each faith that seem incompatible with the other, no God and no soul in Buddhism, for example, and the need for grace and the historical atonement on the cross in Christianity. Buddhist Christianity can be no bland blend of the tamer aspects of both faiths, but must result from a wrestling of the seeming incompatibles, allowing each faith to shake the other to its very foundations. The author traces his personal journey through which his need for both faiths became painfully apparent. He explores the Buddha and Jesus through their teachings and the varied communities that flow from them, investigating their different understandings of suffering and wrong, self and liberation, meditation and prayer, cosmology and God or not? He concludes with a bold commitment to both faiths.