What Christians can learn from Buddhism
Subtitle: rethinking salvation
By: Kristin Johnston Largen.
Series: Facets
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780800663285
Subjects: Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism; Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity; Salvation; Buddhism -- Doctrines
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The task at hand; title: Can we? Should we?; title: Interreligious dialogue as an act of understanding; title: Whose salvation?; title: The journey ahead; title: A Christian view of salvation; title: Salvation in context; title: Motifs of atonement; title: Salvation talk and tensions; title: Introducing Buddhism; title: Life of the Buddha; title: Teachings of the Buddha; title: The Three Baskets of the Buddha's teaching; title: The development of Buddhism; title: A Buddhist understanding of nirvana; title: Nirvana according to Nagarjuna; title: Buddhist practices of nirvana; title: Rethinking salvation; title: Relinquishing the claim to autonomy; title: Recognizing our interdependent existence; title: Salvation now; title: The possibility of universal salvation; title: Theology for the future.