Table of Contents

Part One Interreligious Dialogue; Chapter One Buddhist Interreligious Dialogue: To Build a Global Community, David W. Chappell; Chapter Two Response to David Chappell, Winston L. King; Chapter Three Interreligious Dialogue, Winston L. King; Chapter Four Response to Winston King, David Chappell; Part Two Ultimate Reality; Chapter Five ‘In the Beginning … God’: A Christian’s View of Ultimate Reality, Bonnie Thurston; Chapter Six Response to Bonnie Thurston’s ‘“In the Beginning … God”: A Christian’s View of Ultimate Reality’, Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Seven The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought: In Memory of Frederick Streng, Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Eight Response to: ‘The Concept of The Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought’, Bonnie Thurston; Part Three Nature and Ecology; Chapter Nine The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self, Alan Sponberg; Chapter Ten Response to Alan Sponberg’s ‘The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self’, Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Eleven Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order, Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Twelve Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order: A Buddhist Response, Alan Sponberg; Part Four Social and Political Issues of Liberation; Chapter Thirteen Buddhism and Social Engagement, Sallie B. King; Chapter Fourteen Some Questions About the World, John P. Keenan; Chapter Fifteen The Mind of Wisdom and Justice in the Letter of James, John P. Keenan; Chapter Sixteen Response to John Keenan, Sallie B. King; Part Five Ultimate Transformation or Liberation; Chapter Seventeen Under the Bodhi Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Thomas P. Kasulis; Chapter Eighteen Nailed to a Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Ruben L. F. Habito; Chapter Nineteen The Resurrection of the Dead, and Life Everlasting: From a Futuristic to a Realized Christianity, Ruben L.F. Habito; Chapter Twenty The Momentous and the Momentary, Thomas P. K

About the Author

Charles S. Prebish, Damien Keown, Sallie B. King, Paul O. Ingram

Reviews

Winner of the Society of Buddhist Christian Studies' annual "Fredercik J. Streng Book Award" for 2003

'From the first page, the reader is drawn into a dynamic interchange between the two traditions, undertaken in honour of a giant within the study of religions in the USA, Fred Streng. The content is rich and varied. Justice cannot be done to it in a short review. Crucial issues are discussed concerning the nature of inter-religious dialogue. This book will be a source of enjoyment and inspiration to anyone interested in the encounter between Buddhism and Christianity and indeed in inter-religious encounter in general.' - Elizabeth J. Harris, Reviews in Religion and Theology