Buddhist-Christian reflection that uses friendship as a model for interreligious understanding. In this work of Buddhist-Christian reflection, John Ross Carter explores two basic aspects of human religiousness: faith and the activity of understanding. Carter’s perspective is unique, putting people and their experiences at the center of inquiry into religiousness. His model and method grows out of friendship, challenging the so-called objective approach to the study of religion that privileges patterns, concepts, and abstraction.Carter considers the traditions he knows best, the Protestant Christianity he was born into and the Theravada and Jodo Shinshu (Pure Land) traditions of the Sri Lankan and Japanese friends among whom he has lived, studied, and worked. His rich, wide-ranging accounts of religious experience include discussions of transcendence, reason, sam|vega, shinjin, the inconceivable, and whether lives oriented toward faith will survive in a global context with increased pressures for individualism and secularism. Ultimately, Carter proposes that the endeavor of interreligious understanding is itself a religious quest.
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Foreword p.xi-xxi Acknowledgments p.xxiii-xxv Introductory Note p.xxvii-xxxii List of Abbreviations p.xxxiii
I: The Quest for Religious Understanding with Theravāda, Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists, and Christians Chapter 1: On Understanding Religious Men and Women p.3-12 Chapter 2: Truth and History in Interreligious Understanding: A Preliminary Inquiry p.13-21 Chapter 3: Interreligious Understanding as a Religious Quest p.23-34
II: The Dynamics of Faith and Beyond: Personally and in an Ever-Expanding Community Chapter 4: Saṃvega and the Incipient Phase of Faith p.37-43 Chapter 5: Shinjin More than “Faith”? p.45-61 Chapter 6: Celebrating Our Faith p.63-72 Chapter 7: Colloquia in Faith p.73-82
III: Converging Affirmations from Different Perspectives Chapter 8: “Relying Upon” or “Taking Refuge” as a Genuinely Human Activity p.85-98 Chapter 9: Love and Compassion as Given p.99-108 Chapter 10: Toward an Understanding of What Is Inconceivable p.109-121 Chapter 11: The Arising of Salvific Realization as Buddhists and Christians Have Affirmed p.123-133 Chapter 12: Relationality in Religious Awareness p.135-159
IV: Building from Our Past into Our Common Future Chapter 13: From Controversy to Understanding: More than a Century of Progress p.163-173 Chapter 14: Religion and the Imperatives for Development p.175-180 Chapter 15: Getting First Things First: Some Reflections on a Response by Venerable Ananda Maitreya p.181-185 Chapter 16: Translational Theology: An Expression of the Faith of Christians in a Religiously Plural World p.187-197 Chapter 17: Buddhists and Baptists: In Conversation into Our Common Future p.199-213
V: The Challenge of Our Future Chapter 18: Will There Be Faith on Earth? p.217-224
Notes p.225-285 A Bibliographic Note on the Context of Origin and Subsequent Versions of the Chapters in this Volume p.287-289 Bibliography p.291-303 Index p.305-314
