John P. Keenan, Sydney Copp, Lansing Davis, Buster G. Smith

Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World (eBook, ePUB)

with a little help from Nagarjuna

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498274944
• Artikelnr.: 55266880

Autorenporträt

John P. Keenan is professor emeritus of religion at Middlebury College and a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Vermont. His previous works include The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahayana Meditations; The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology; The Gospel of Mark: A Mahayana Reading; A Study of the Buddhabhumyupadésa: The Doctrinal Development of the Notion of Wisdom in Yogacara Thought; and Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World-With a Little Help from Nagarjuna.