ABSTRACT
The title of this chapter might seem strange or even repulsive to a Buddhist. It would represent to him perhaps an attempted Christianization of Buddhism. For strictly speaking, Buddhism totally denies the operation of grace in its discipline and, as we have seen, contends that a man is saved sheerly by his own efforts. It uses the word “faith” very cautiously for fear of confusing its own “reasoned confidence” with the “blind belief” of all other religions. Yet our interest in this chapter is to observe whether there are in actuality some elements of both grace and faith hidden beneath the grace-faith-denying Buddhist vocabulary.
