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BL
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589814
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b419033
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| Main Entry
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Carter, John Ross
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| Title & Author
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In the company of friends : : exploring faith and understanding with Buddhists and Christians /\ John Ross Carter
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| Publication Statement
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Albany :: State University of New York Press,, c2012
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| Page. NO
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xxxiii, 314 p. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9781438442792 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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: 1438442793 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-303) and index
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| Contents
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The quest for religious understanding with Theravāda, Jōdo Shinshū Buddhists, and Christians. On understanding religious men and women -- Truth and history in interreligious understanding: a preliminary inquiry -- Interreligious understanding as a religious quest -- The dynamics of faith and beyond: personally and in an ever expanding community. Saṃvega and the incipient phase of faith -- Shinjin: more than "faith"? -- Celebrating our faith -- Colloquia in faith -- Converging affirmations from different perspectives. "Relying upon" or "taking refuge" as a genuinely human activity -- Love and compassion as given -- Toward an understanding of what is inconceivable -- The arising of salvific realization as Buddhists and Christians have affirmed -- Relationality in religious awareness -- Building from our past into our common future. From controversy to understanding: more than a century of progress -- Religion and the imperatives for development -- Getting first things first: some reflections on a response by Venerable Ananda Maitreya -- Translational theology: an expression of the faith of Christians in a religiously plural world -- Buddhists and Baptists: in conversation into our common future -- The challenge of our future. Will there be faith on Earth?
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| Subject
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Christianity and other religions-- Buddhism
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Buddhism-- Relations-- Christianity
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| LC Classification
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BR128.B8C37 2012
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