Spirituality Without God: Buddhist Enlightenment and Christian Salvation - Softcover

Harold Netland

9781842276426: Spirituality Without God: Buddhist Enlightenment and Christian Salvation

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842276425 ISBN 13: 9781842276426

Verlag: New Publisher, 2021

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P�ginas: 252 G�neros: 12:HRC:Christianity 12:HRE:Buddhism Sinopsis: In recent years Buddhism has attracted a fast-growing following in North America and Europe. In part, this is because Buddhism seems to offer peace and inner tranquillity, a profound spirituality and insight into ultimate reality yet without the need for belief in a God. To many spiritual seekers in the post-Christian West this ',spirituality without God', has strong appeal.Whilst Buddhism has been a formative influence in the cultures of South and East Asia it is a relatively new arrival in the West and is little understood by Christians. This book has the twofold aim of introducing the diverse Buddhist traditions to Western readers and of offering a Christian engagement with the central truth-claims of Buddhism. This book is one of few attempts by Christians to offer a respectful and informed, but honest and robust critique of this important religion. It forms a helpful contribution to inter-faith understanding and discussions.', This is interfaith dialogue at its best. Netland and Yandell provide a thoughtful understanding of Buddhism, followed by a careful pressing of internal problems within Buddhism, then a constructive summary of real differences between Christianity and Buddhism. They also succeed in establishing the plausibility of Christianity in the light of various possible Buddhist critiques. No reader, Christian or Buddhist, will be left unchallenged by this lucid exposition, critique, and proclamation.',_,

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Cr�ticas:

This book shows us (to use a Buddhist expression) analytical meditation at its finest. It is an exciting book that I shall certainly use and recommend to my students. For those Christians and Buddhists who take truth seriously, and understand the significance of reasoning in making crucial choices, Netland and Yandells book will contribute significantly to setting the agenda for serious dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism for some time to come. --Paul Williams, Co-director, Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol, UK

This is interfaith dialogue at its best. Netland and Yandell provide a thoughtful understanding of Buddhism, followed by a careful pressing of internal problems within Buddhism, followed by a constructive summary of real differences between Christianity and Buddhism. No reader, Christian or Buddhist, will be left unchallenged by this lucid exposition, critique, and proclamation. --Gavin D'Costa, Professor of Christian Theology, Bristol University, UK

This book has two considerable virtues. The first is that it takes with respectful seriousness what Buddhists and Christians claim about the way the world is and how human beings are. The second is that it is interested in whether these claims might be true. Either virtue suffices to make the book worth reading; the presence of both makes it essential. --Paul J. Griffiths, Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, Duke Divinity School, USA

Rese�a del editor:

In recent years Buddhism has attracted a fast-growing following in North America and Europe. In part, this is because Buddhism seems to offer peace and inner tranquillity, a profound spirituality and insight into ultimate reality yet without the need for belief in a God. To many spiritual seekers in the post-Christian West this 'spirituality without God' has strong appeal.

Whilst Buddhism has been a formative influence in the cultures of South and East Asia it is a relatively new arrival in the West and is little understood by Christians. This book has the twofold aim of introducing the diverse Buddhist traditions to Western readers and of offering a Christian engagement with the central truth-claims of Buddhism. This book is one of few attempts by Christians to offer a respectful and informed, but honest and robust critique of this important religion. It forms a helpful contribution to inter-faith understanding and discussions.

' This is interfaith dialogue at its best. Netland and Yandell provide a thoughtful understanding of Buddhism, followed by a careful pressing of internal problems within Buddhism, then a constructive summary of real differences between Christianity and Buddhism. They also succeed in establishing the plausibility of Christianity in the light of various possible Buddhist critiques. No reader, Christian or Buddhist, will be left unchallenged by this lucid exposition, critique, and proclamation.'

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