In the Company of Friends : Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians

, by Carter, John Ross

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ISBN: 9781438442792 | 1438442793
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Copyright: 7/1/2012

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Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding.

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Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introductory Note	p. xxvii
List of Abbreviations	p. xxxiii
The Quest for Religious Understanding With Theravada, Jodo Shinshu Buddhists, and Christians
On Understanding Religious Men and Women	p. 3
Truth and History in Interreligious Understanding: A Preliminary Inquiry	p. 13
Interreligious Understanding as a Religious Quest	p. 23
The Dynamics of Faith and Beyond: Personally and in an Ever Expanding Community
Samvega and the Incipient Phase of Faith	p. 37
Shinjin: More than "Faith"?	p. 45
Celebrating Our Faith	p. 63
Colloquia in Faith	p. 73
Converging Affirmations from Different Perspectives
"Relying Upon" or "Taking Refuge" as a Genuinely Human Activity	p. 85
Love and Compassion as Given	p. 99
Toward an Understanding of What Is Inconceivable	p. 109
The Arising of Salvific Realization as Buddhists and Christians Have Affirmed	p. 123
Relationality in Religious Awareness	p. 135
Building From Our Past into Our Common Future
From Controversy to Understanding: More than a Century of Progress	p. 163
Religion and the Imperatives for Development	p. 175
Getting First Things First: Some Reflections on a Response by Venerable Ananda Maitreya	p. 181
Translational Theology: An Expression of the Faith of Christians in a Religiously Plural World	p. 187
Buddhists and Baptists: In Conversation into Our Common Future	p. 199
The Challenge of Our Future
Will There Be Faith on Earth?	p. 217
Notes	p. 225
A Bibliographic Note on the Context of Origin and Subsequent Versions of the Chapters in this Volume	p. 287
Bibliography	p. 291
Index	p. 305
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In the Company of Friends : Exploring Faith and Understanding with Buddhists and Christians

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