Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history that stretches back to the first centuries of the common era. Comprising 42 international and disciplinarily diverse chapters, this volume begins by setting up a framework for examining the nature of Buddhist-Christian interreligious dialogue, discussing how research in this area has been conducted in the past and considering future theoretical directions. Subsequent chapters delve into:
- important episodes in the history of Buddhist-Christian dialogue;
- contemporary conversations such as monastic interreligious dialogue, multiple religious identity, and dual religious practice; and
- Buddhist-Christian cooperation in social justice, social engagement, pastoral care, and interreligious education settings.
The volume closes with a section devoted to comparative and constructive explorations of different speculative themes that range from the theological to the philosophical or experiential. This handbook explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done.
The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies
is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Buddhist-Christian studies, Asian religions, and interreligious relationships. It will be of interest to those in fields such as anthropology, political science, theology, and history.
Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history stretching back to the first centuries of the common era. This explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done and is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Asian religions and interreligious relationships.
Introduction Part I: Theory and Method
1. The Variety of Methods in
Buddhist-Christian Studies
2. Buddhism and Christianity through Fractal Eyes
3. Buddhist-Christian Dialogue: A Proposal
4. The Craft of Interfaith
Curiosity
5. Dialogue as Contemplative Practice: Buddhist Contributions to
Interreligious Dialogue
6. Serving Two Masters: Possibilities and
Opportunities of Double Belonging
7. Meeting in kenosis Part II: Historical
Encounters
8. Christianity in early Tibet: Shreds of Evidence
9. Ippolito
Desideri and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
10. From Competition to
Collaboration: Four Hundred Years of Buddhist-Catholic Engagement in Vietnam,
1620-2020
11. The Christian-Buddhist Encounter in 17th century China
12.
Buddhist-Christian Relations in Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts: the case
study of Sri Lanka
13. Spiritualities separated at birth or accidentally
related? The 'spiritual senses' traditions in Eastern Orthodox Hesychasm and
Chan/Zen Buddhism
14. Poor, Yet Making Many Rich: Poverty as Virtue in the
Franciscan and Theravada Buddhist monastic traditions Part III: Contemporary
Conversations
15. Monastic Interreligious Dialogue and its contribution to
Buddhist-Christian encounter
16. A Comparison of Aquinas and Dgens Views on
Religious/Monastic Life
17. Millennium World: Thomas Merton, Buddhism, &
Monastic Futurism
18. Constructive Catholic Theology in the Light of a
Buddhist Imagination
19. Heaven and Sukhvat: Martin Luther and Shinran
Shonin on Death and What Follows
20. Thich Nhat Hanhs Buddhist-Christian
"Practical Theological Vision" for Rebuilding Hope: Co-designing the Practice
for Peaceful Communities that Restore Faith, Courage, and Love
21. The
Buddhist Christian Encounter and the Challenges of Multiple Religious
Belonging in Asia
22. Zen Buddhism and the Spiritual Exercises of Saint
Ignatius: Toward Mutual Learning and Enrichment Part IV: Social engagement,
pastoral care, and the challenge of interreligious education
23.
Interreligious Solidarity for an Ecological Civilization: a Catholic and
Humanistic Buddhist Conversation
24. Towards a Buddhist Theory of Social
Justice: Thich Nhat Hanh, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Just Society
25.
Buddhist-Christian dialogue and inter-religious learning
26. Herding Cows and
Sheep: Giving Guidance in Buddhist and Christian Spiritual Formation
27.
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in Art
28. African American and Womanist Buddhist
Thought
29. A brief critical appraisal of the Buddhist Modernism Paradigm
Part V: Constructive Reflections
30. A Tibetan epektasis? Gregory of Nyssas
understanding of spiritual progress and the Gelug pa teaching on the four
Buddha bodies
31. Aquinas and Dölpopa, searching for foundations
32. Eckhart
and Dgen on Forgetting the Self: A Contemplative Studies Perspective
33.
Commensurable Saints? Buddhist-Christian Dialogue and Comparative Notions of
Sanctity
34. The Composite Union of Natures: A Study Comparing the Structures
of Hypostatic Union in Chalcedonian Christology and Dharmkara Bodhisattva in
Shin-Buddhism
35. On Religious Engagement: Shinran and Heideggers Paul
36.
Creative Tensions in Buddhist and Christian Doctrine
37. The Paths of
Purification: Buddhaghosa and John of the Cross
38. Irreversibility and
Reciprocity in the Divine-Human Relationship
39. "Being in Love": Religious
Conversion in Bernard Lonergan and the Lotus Sutra
40. Buddhist-Christian
dialogue and the Kyoto school 41.The Deaths of Buddha and Jesus 42.Matchless
on Their Way: Comparative Reflections on Christ and the Bodhisattva
Carol S. Anderson is Professor of Religion at Kalamazoo College, U.S.A.
Thomas Cattoi is Associate Professor in Christology and Cultures at the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University and the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, U.S.A.
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