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In our pluralistic society, interreligious dialogue is an issue no longer restricted to academia.  Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus and those of other  faiths are just as likely to be our neighbors and co-workers as Catholics, Protestants, and Jews.  Traditional ways of understanding other religions in relation to Christianity and salvation repeatedly fail.  As recourse, the author presents an all-new model that moves  beyond the paralysis of theorizing into active encounters with non-Christian religions, then uses these encounters as a way to transform our own understanding of our Christian faith.  Faith among Faiths - - surveys the contemporary debate about a theology of religions,  summarizing the thoughts of its major thinkers - presents its own model of "doing theology comparatively" - gives two examples of the model, comparing a story about Krishna with a  parable, and exploring the meaning of Christian  resurrection through the  thought of Zen Buddhism

Faith Among Faiths: Christianity &amp; the Other Religions

Buddhists and Christians examines Christian teachings about other religions to argue that the next step to dialogue is ""comparative theology."" Fredericks asks why the Buddha refused to engage in God-talk and suggests that understanding the answer to this question will help Christians and Buddhists to have better communication and to find that God reveals the way to mutual comprehension and deeper solidarity.

Buddhists and Christians: Through Comparative Theology to Solidarity (Faith Meets Faith Series)

The Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra Aetate) of the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) called for Roman Catholics to join together with those who follow other religious paths in a spirit of cooperation, esteem, humility, and dialogue. In the 50 years since the Council, Catholics across the globe have developed extraordinary friendships with those who follow other religious paths. This volume celebrates these interreligious friendships by letting Catholics, sometimes together with their non-Christian friends, tell their own stories. These stories of real friendships will be engaging to anyone interested in the frontiers of spirituality, interreligious dialogue, or comparative theology. Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate offers essays about friendships with Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, and with those to practice African Traditional Religions.

Interreligious Friendship after Nostra Aetate (Interreligious Studies in Theory and Practice)

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James Fredericks, Ph.D. is a faculty member in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University and a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco. He is also a specialist in inter-religious dialogue, especially the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity, and has lectured internationally in Japan, China, India, Iran, and Europe. He was a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar in Kyoto, Japan, and has held the Numata Chair in Buddhism and Culture at Ryukoku University in Kyoto. For many years, he has participated in the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, the Los Angeles Buddhist-Catholic Dialogue Group and the San Francisco Bay Area Zen-Catholic Dialogue Group. In addition to many articles, he is the author of Faith Among Faiths: Christian Theology and the Non-Christian Religions (Paulist Press) and Buddhists and Christians: Through Comparative Theology to a New Solidarity (Orbis Books). He is the co-editor of Interreligio us Friendships After Nostra Aetate (Palgrave-MacMillan 2015). His work has been translated into Japanese, Chinese, German, and Spanish.

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