The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng

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ISBN: 9780700711215 | 070071121X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 7/20/1999

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Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honor the volume was created. Topics include inter-religious dialogue, ultimate reality, nature and ecology, social and political issues of liberation, and ultimate transformation or liberation.

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Contributors
Introduction: What is the Sound of Liberating Truth? Remembering Fred Streng (1933-1993)
Prologue
Interreligious Dialogue	p. 1
Buddhist Interreligious Dialogue: To Build a Global Community	p. 3
Response to David Chappell	p. 36
Interreligious Dialogue	p. 41
Response to Winston King	p. 57
Ultimate Reality	p. 63
'In the Beginning ... God': A Christian's View of Ultimate Reality	p. 65
Response to Bonnie Thurston's '"In the Beginning ... God": A Christian's View of Ultimate Reality'	p. 78
The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought: In Memory of Frederick Streng	p. 84
Response to: 'The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought'	p. 101
Nature and Ecology	p. 105
The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self	p. 107
Response to Alan Sponberg's 'The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self'	p. 128
Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order	p. 133
Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order: A Buddhist Response	p. 149
Social and Political Issues of Liberation	p. 157
Buddhism and Social Engagement	p. 159
Some Questions About the World	p. 181
The Mind of Wisdom and Justice in the Letter of James	p. 186
Response to John Keenan	p. 200
Ultimate Transformation or Liberation	p. 205
Under the Bodhi Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation	p. 207
Nailed to a Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation	p. 220
The Resurrection of the Dead, and Life Everlasting: From a Futuristic to a Realized Christianity	p. 223
The Momentous and the Momentary	p. 239
Epilogues	p. 245
A Buddhist Epilogue	p. 247
A Christian Epilogue	p. 265
Index	p. 272
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The Sound of Liberating Truth: Buddhist-Christian Dialogues in Honor of Frederick J. Streng

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