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Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralistic World—with a Little Help from Nāgārjuna |
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Keenan, John P. (著)
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Copp, Sydney (著)
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Lansing, David (著)
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Smith, Buster G. (著)
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| Date | 2009 |
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| Pages | 123 |
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| Publisher | Wipf and Stock |
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| Publisher Url |
https://wipfandstock.com/
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| Location | Eugene, OR, US [尤金, 奧勒岡州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | John P. Keenan is Rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Newport, Vermont, and Professor Emeritus of Religion at Middlebury College. |
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| Abstract | 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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| Table of contents | A world of many faiths
When faith meets faith 1
Exclusivism: possessing the true picture 6
Inclusivism: possessing the complete picture 8
How do we get beyond inclusivism? 14
Whose revelation? Whose scripture? 17
Pluralism: the picture gallery 21
The trouble with pluralism 27
Toward a workable philosophy of religions
If not pluralism, what? 31
Going to ground and learning the vernacular 35
Developing new apologetics 39
The useful philosophies of Mahāyāna Buddhism
The distinction between Buddhist doctrine and Mahāyāna philosophy 46
The development of Mahāyāna philosophy 49
THE MIDDLE PATH OF MADHYAMIKA
The philosophy of emptiness 52
Emptiness as dependent arising 56
Two truths-ultimate and conventional 62
The truth of faith liberated from the absolute 67
YOGĀCĀRA'S ANALYSIS OF THE MIND OF FAITH
Nagging questions about emptiness 72
Practitioners of introspection 74
Becoming conscious of consciousness 78
The mind as the very model of dependent arising 81
Three patterns of thinking 83
Contemplating the truth of scripture and doctrine 87
Grounding our faith in a pluralist world
Apologetics from the ground 91
Culturally sensitive hermeneutics 93
Truth and convention 96
The emptiness and dependent arising of traditions 100
Interfaith conversation in a Mahāyāna mode 103
Wrapping up (a non-conclusion) 109
Bibliography 117 |
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| ISBN | 9781556359972; 1556359977 |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralistic World—with a Little Help from Nāgārjuna by John Keenan, Sydney Copp, Lansing Davis, and Buster G. Smith / Knitter, Paul F. (評論)
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| Created date | 2025.01.09 |
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| Modified date | 2025.01.10 |
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