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What Christians can learn from Buddhism : rethinking salvation / Kristin Johnston Largen

Author
Largen, Kristin Johnston, 1968-
Published
Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
xii, 171 pages ; 18 cm.

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Contents
The task at hand -- Can we? Should we? -- Interreligious dialogue as an act of understanding -- Why salvation? -- The journey ahead -- A Christian view of salvation -- Salvation in context -- Three motifs of atonement -- Salvation talk and tensions -- Introducing Buddhism -- Life of the Buddha -- Teachings of the Buddha -- The three baskets of the Buddha's teaching -- The development of Buddhism -- A Buddhist understanding of nirvana -- Nirvana according to Nagarjuna -- Buddhist practices of nirvana -- Rethinking salvation -- Relinquishing the claim to autonomy -- Recognizing our interdependent existence -- Salvation now -- The possibility of universal salvation -- Theology for the future.
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ISBN
9780800663285 (alk. paper)
0800663284 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171).
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