Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: --With a Little Help from Nagarjuna - Softcover

Keenan, John P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1556359977 ISBN 13: 9781556359972

Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2008

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Reseña del editor:

This book draws upon the Mahayana philosophy developed within Buddhism, employing it as a means to empty our usual alternatives for viewing the world's many religions--whether exclusivism, inclusivism, or pluralism. The aim is to free people from clinging to intellectual positions, enabling them gently but committedly to affirm their vernacular tradition as it is practiced on the ground. It critiques the above three options, and introduces the Mahayana philosophy of emptiness and dependent arising, along with its distinction between ultimate truth and conventional truth. It then applies this philosophy to an urgent question that bedevils modern people: how to practice one's chosen faith in the awareness of many other honored and attractive paths, both elegant and efficacious.

Biografía del autor:

John P. Keenan is professor of Religion at Middlebury College and vicar of St. Nicholas Episcopal Church in Scarborough, Maine. He has published translations and studies in Yogacara Buddhism, and has employed Mahayana Buddhist philosophy in works including "The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology" and "The Letter of James: Everyday Practice for Everyday Christians".

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• Verlag: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1556359977
• ISBN 13: 9781556359972
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136