ABSTRACT
Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honour the volume was created. Topics include interreligious dialogue, ultimate reality, nature and ecology, social and political issues of liberation, and ultimate transformation or liberation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part One|62 pages
Interreligious Dialogue
part Two|42 pages
Ultimate Reality
chapter Chapter Six|6 pages
Response to Bonnie Thurston's ‘“In the Beginning … God”: A Christian's View of Ultimate Reality’
chapter Chapter Seven|17 pages
The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought: In Memory of Frederick Streng
part Three|52 pages
Nature and Ecology
chapter Chapter Ten|5 pages
Response to Alan Sponberg's ‘The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self'
chapter Chapter Twelve|8 pages
Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order: A Buddhist Response
part Four|48 pages
Social and Political Issues of Liberation
part Five|40 pages
Ultimate Transformation or Liberation
chapter Chapter Seventeen|13 pages
Under the Bodhi Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation
chapter Chapter Eighteen|3 pages
Nailed to a Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation
chapter Chapter Nineteen|16 pages
The Resurrection of the Dead, and Life Everlasting: From a Futuristic to a Realized Christianity
part Six|27 pages
Epilogues
