Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science
Author: Paul O. Ingram
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2008
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780742562158

Offers a view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences.

The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
Author: Paul O Ingram
Publisher: James Clarke & Company
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-09-29
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0227903374

While process philosophers and theologians have written numerous essays on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, few have sought to expand the current Buddhist-Christian dialogue into a "trilogue" by bringing the natural sciences into the discussion as a third partner. This was the topic of Paul O. Ingram's previous book, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science. The thesis of the present work is that Buddhist-Christian dialogue in all three of its forms - conceptual, social engagement, and interior - are interdependent processes of creative transformation. Ingram appropriates the categories of Whitehead's process metaphysics as a means of clarifying how dialogue is now mutually and creatively transforming both Buddhism and Christianity. Drawing also on the work of theologian John Hicks and philosopher of science Imre Lakatos, Ingram develops an understanding of Buddhist-Christian dialogue in the context of a religious pluralism that is both open and dynamic and methodologically rigorous. Wide-ranging and full of insight, The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue will be invaluable to scholars and students of comparative religion.

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
Author: Paul O. Ingram
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2007-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725219441

The essays in this volume focus on philosophical, theological, and structural aspects of contemporary Buddhist-Christian dialogue in an effort to assess its potential as a source for the renewal and transformation of both traditions. Writing from differing assumptions, academic disciplines, and religious world views, the nine Christian and two Buddhist contributors are nevertheless agreed that interreligious dialogue can contribute meaningfully to our understanding of some of the profound issues arising out of modern self-consciousness. Believing that the human community and its survival are threatened everywhere by secularism, they seek to show that the dialogue between Buddhists and Christians can provide not only insights but a conceptual framework for authentic living in the present age of religious pluralism. Each writer shares the conclusion that Buddhist-Christian encounter is vitally important for a larger understanding of contemporary issues of self-identity, evil, communication, and fulfillment.

The Sound of Liberating Truth

The Sound of Liberating Truth
Author: Paul Ingram
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2013-10-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136821449

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

The Center is Everywhere

The Center is Everywhere
Author: Seung Chul Kim
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2022-03-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1666735566

The most crucial task facing Christian theology today is the furtherance of dialogue with the religious traditions of the world great and small and with the scientific worldview. The starting premise of this book is that the two dialogues need to be carried on simultaneously and equiprimordially, despite the risk of undermining the traditional foundations of the Christian faith. The author argues that such a crisis can be averted by breaking through its core and opening faith to an experience of nothingness. He draws on the Buddhist philosophy of the Kyoto School philosopher Nishitani Keiji to propose new paths toward a theology of religious pluralism grounded in a Huayan Buddhist vision of reality.

Tertium Datur?

Tertium Datur?
Author: Sibylle C. Fritsch-Oppermann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-01-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9783643912558

The Cosmic Breath

The Cosmic Breath
Author: Amos Yong
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2012-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781299397804

"Recent thinking in the interfaith dialogue and in the theology-science dialogue have taken a "pneumatological turn." The Cosmic Breath explores this pneumatological theology as unfolded in the Christian-Buddhist dialogue alongside critical interaction with the theology-and-science conversation. As an attempt in comparative and constructive Christian philosophical theology, its central thesis is that a pneumatological approach to Buddhist traditions in further dialogue with modern science generates new philosophical resources that invigorate Christian thinking about the natural world and humanity's place in it. The result is a transformation of the Buddhist-Christian dialogue from insights generated in the theology-and-science interface and a contribution to the religion-and-science dialogue from a comparative theological and philosophical perspective."--Publisher's website.

God, Science, and Religious Diversity

God, Science, and Religious Diversity
Author: Robert T. Lehe
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2018-07-24
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1532619588

Two major obstacles to belief in God in the twenty-first century are the idea that science is incompatible with religious faith, and the idea that the diversity of religions undermines the credibility of belief that any one religion could be truer than the others. This book addresses both of these challenges to belief in God and explores a connection between them. It argues that science and religion are not only compatible, but that some recent scientific discoveries actually support belief in the existence of the Creator God. The diversity of religions is widely believed to undermine the credibility of religious truth claims because of the assumed lack of any way to settle disagreements between different religions. This book argues that one rational way to adjudicate disagreements between the claims of diverse religions is to assess their consistency with contemporary science. The book considers how Christian theism and Buddhism fare in harmonizing their metaphysical frameworks with contemporary scientific cosmology. Although both theistic and Buddhist worldviews resonate with many recent scientific discoveries, the Big Bang theory and cosmic fine-tuning favor the Christian doctrine of creation.

The Cosmic Breath

The Cosmic Breath
Author: Amos Yong
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2012-05-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004205136

The interjection of pneumatology in both theologies of interreligious dialogue and in the theology-and-science conversation comes together in this volume. The resulting Christianity-Buddhism-science trialogue opens up to new pneumatological perspectives on philosophical cosmology and anthropology in interdisciplinary and global context.

A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

A Bridge to Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
Author: Seiichi Yagi
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 170
Release: 1990
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780809131693

This work is in two parts. Swidler's translation from German of Yagi's short book, The Front Structure as a Bridge to Buddhist Christian Thought, and Swidler's extended introduction to both the Christian-Buddhist dialogue and to the place of Yagi's theology in it.