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Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflections on Christ and the Bodhisattva
Author Heim, S. Mark (著)
EditionFirst edition
VolumeSpring
Date2019
Pages329
PublisherFordham University Press
Publisher Url https://www.fordhampress.com/
LocationNew York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國]
SeriesComparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
Series No.6
Content type書籍=Book
Language英文=English
NoteS. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology (1995), The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (2001), Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (2006), and most recently, Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (2018).
AbstractThis work provides the first systematic discussion of the Bodhisattva path and its importance for constructive Christian theology. Crucified Wisdom examines specific Buddhist traditions, texts, and practices not as phenomena whose existence requires an apologetic justification but as wells of tested wisdom that invite theological insight. With the increasing participation of Christians in Buddhist practice, many are seeking a deeper understanding of the way the teachings of the two traditions might interface. Christ and the Bodhisattva are often compared superficially in Buddhist–Christian discussion. This text combines a rich exposition of the Bodhisattva path, using Śāntideva’s classic work the Bodicaryāvatāra and subsequent Tibetan commentators, with detailed reflection on its implications for Christian faith and practice.

Author S. Mark Heim lays out root tensions constituted by basic Buddhist teachings on the one hand, and Christian teachings on the other, and the ways in which the Bodhisattva or Christ embody and resolve the resulting paradoxes in their respective traditions. An important contribution to the field of comparative theology in general and to the area of Buddhist–Christian studies in particular, Crucified Wisdom proposes that Christian theology can take direct instruction from Mahāyāna Buddhism in two respects: deepening its understanding of our creaturely nature through no-self insights, and revising its vision of divine immanence in dialogue with teachings of emptiness. Heim argues that Christians may affirm the importance of novelty in history, the enduring significance of human persons, and the Trinitarian reality of God, even as they learn to value less familiar, nondual dimensions of Christ’s incarnation, human redemption, and the divine life.

Crucified Wisdom focuses on questions of reconciliation and atonement in Christian theology and explores the varying interpretations of the crucifixion of Jesus in Buddhist–Christian discussion. The Bodhisattva path is central for major contemporary Buddhist voices such as the Dalai Lama and Thích Nhât Hanh, who figure prominently as conversation partners in the text. This work will be of particular value for those interested in “dual belonging” in connection to these traditions.
Table of contentsPreface and Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: The Bodhisattva Path and the Christ Path 1

I Two Paths
1 Two Problems, Two Miracles 25

II Perfection of Wisdom and the Bodhisattva Path in Śāntideva
2 The Bodhisattva Path 59
3 Extreme Wisdom, Groundless Compassion 82

III Christian Reflections
4 The Bodhisattva as Aspirant: Creatures and No-Self 127
5 The Bodhisattva as Buddha: Immanence and Emptiness 165
6 How Do Buddhas Help?: Bodhisattva as Benefactor and Christ as Savior 209

Conclusion: Crucified Wisdom 261

Notes 271
Works Cited 309
Index 321
ISBN0823281248; 9780823281244
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780823281268
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