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Christian-Buddhist Conversations: Foundations for Dialogue , 2020
Inter-religious dialogue is one of the most important and growing developments in the twentieth a... more Inter-religious dialogue is one of the most important and growing developments in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In a globalized, and increasingly fractious world, mutual consideration and open dialogue is crucial in a multi-religious society. Christian-Buddhist Conversations explores this through an analysis of the doctrines, histories, beliefs, practices, and ethics within Christianity and Buddhism. It brings together a scholar from each religious tradition in order to detail points of connection and differences with the aim of better mutual understanding. The discussions are detailed but accessible to non-specialists who desire to understand both their own traditions and the traditions of others. The chapters are aimed at pairing teachings and concepts and include: Christ and Buddha, religious authority, sacred texts, sin and karma, salvation and liberation, love and compassion, monasticism, the place of the human being in the world and cosmos, and public and political participation. Each topic is explored historically and in terms of the ideas central to each tradition. The book includes notes for further reference, a bibliography, and an index.
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The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society
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Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
This article confronts the ongoing tragedy of extinction in the Anthropocene from the standpoint ... more This article confronts the ongoing tragedy of extinction in the Anthropocene from the standpoint of grief and embodied affect. It argues that when confronted with the death of an animal other – be it in public and political settings or in personal encounters of suffering – that silent grief is an embodied form of protest to the triumphalist and anthropocentric narratives of the neoliberal petro-state. In developing an account of suffering and grief from Miguel de Unamuno the argument proceeds to account for an embodied political praxis which subverts political structures aimed at marginalizing animal-others. Finally, in dialogue with Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the article concludes with a reflection on how scholarly activities in the mode of grief might enact relational capacities with the broader animal and natural world.
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Toronto Journal of Theology
[Figure: see text] Scientifically engaged theologies struggle to include a cohesive eschatology i... more [Figure: see text] Scientifically engaged theologies struggle to include a cohesive eschatology in light of empirical projections of mass extinction and the potential death of the cosmos. On the one hand, Denis Edwards argues for a noninterventionist account of resurrection that coheres with evolutionary origins. On the other hand, animal theologies tend to neglect eschatology or engage in speculation. This article argues that eschatology requires a scientifically coherent account of creation. Therefore, it proposes that eschatology for both human and nonhuman participants must be communally grounded along evolutionary lines. Using Buber's intersubjectivity and evolutionary accounts of theology, it concludes that since eschatological life is relationally constituted within an evolutionary community, then in order to maintain continuity of identity, eschatological relationships are contingent upon the evolutionary relationships established pre-eschaton.
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International Journal of Public Theology
After critically reviewing the ongoing development of various publics in public theology, this ar... more After critically reviewing the ongoing development of various publics in public theology, this article attempts to develop an additional public in nonanthropocentric terms in order to ground adequately public theology’s approach to the current climate crisis. Seeking a path between an account of Earth as a commons, with its emphasis on similarity and the diffractive method’s emphasis on the separateness of biodiverse lives, it argues that Merleau-Ponty’s articulation of the flesh of the world provides material for a politically engaged public theology. In emphasizing the separateness of embodied selves in the perceptual fields of embodied flesh, it develops an account of the ecosphere as an ontologically grounding public to correct the limitations of various ‘publics’ as human-centered institutions. In doing so, the transcendence of Earth’s embodied inhabitants is emphasized that conceives of public in terms of the connective tissues of more-than-human bodies.
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... lines of research in assessing nonembodied personhood, and finally, Pannenberg's non-pne... more ... lines of research in assessing nonembodied personhood, and finally, Pannenberg's non-pneumatological use of ... led him to argue that the most natural interpretation of the biblical account of ... in the People of God: The Pneumatology of Wolfhart Pannenberg' in The Journal of ...
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Journal of Catholic Social Thought
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