... the Confessor taught that humanity recapitulates the universe.58 58 Lars Thunberg, Man and Cosmos: The Vision of Maximus the Confessor (Crestwood, NY ... View all notes. It is by learning the proper use of our senses and by living in... more
... the Confessor taught that humanity recapitulates the universe.58 58 Lars Thunberg, Man and Cosmos: The Vision of Maximus the Confessor (Crestwood, NY ... View all notes. It is by learning the proper use of our senses and by living in compassionate relation to creation, [that ...
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... the Confessor taught that humanity recapitulates the universe.58 58 Lars Thunberg, Man and Cosmos: The Vision of Maximus the Confessor (Crestwood, NY ... View all notes. It is by learning the proper use of our senses and by living in... more
... the Confessor taught that humanity recapitulates the universe.58 58 Lars Thunberg, Man and Cosmos: The Vision of Maximus the Confessor (Crestwood, NY ... View all notes. It is by learning the proper use of our senses and by living in compassionate relation to creation, [that ...
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Buddhist-Christian dialogue seems to founder on the shoals of theological anthropology. The Christian concept of the soul and concomitant ideas of life after death appear to be diametrically opposed to the Buddhist doctrine of anatta,... more
Buddhist-Christian dialogue seems to founder on the shoals of theological anthropology. The Christian concept of the soul and concomitant ideas of life after death appear to be diametrically opposed to the Buddhist doctrine of anatta, no-self. The anthropological terminology, with its personalist implications in Christianity and its impersonal meanings for Buddhism offers perhaps the greatest challenge to interreligious understanding. The two traditions have built up stereotypical interpretations of one another’s (and their own) vocabularies to such an extent that “personal” and “impersonal” have at times operated in dialogue as “party slogans and fighting words.” 1 In this paper I explore the plausibility that new interpretations of the human being in both traditions may overcome this problem. There is no agreement across denominations on the meaning of soul for Christianity and likewise no single orthodox interpretation of no-self for all forms of Buddhism. There are of course bas...