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WORLD’S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS
Aunt Hannah on the Parliament of Religions, p. 5
Minnie Andrews Snell
Oriental Verities on the American Frontier: The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and the Thought of Masao Abe, p. 7
John R. McRae
Strategic Occidentalism: Meiji Buddhists at the World’s Parliament of Religions, p. 37
James E. Ketelaar
COMPARATIVE REFLECTIONS
The Hermeneutics of Polemic: The Creation of Hinayana and Old Testament, p. 59
Roger J. Corless
The Salvific Role of Knowledge in a Buddhist and a Christian Context: A Comparative Study of Two Parables, p. 75
James Breckenridge
Faith in the Buddhist Tradition, p. 85
Robert Traer
CARDINAL RATZINGER’S LETTER ON CHRISTIAN MEDITATION
Joesph Cardinal Ratzinger’s Letter on Christian Meditation, p. 123
Reflections on “Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation,” p. 139
John Borelli
Love Is God: A Buddhist Interreligious Repsonse to the Vatican Instruction on “Some Aspects of Christian Meditation,” p. 149
Victoria Urubshurow
The Inner Journey: Reflections on the Awakening of Mind and Heart in Buddhism and Christianity, p. 173
Pascaline Coff
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Theological Encounter IV, ed. Rita M. Gross, p. 199
- Introduction
Rita M. Gross - Being in the World: A Buddhist Ethical and Social Concern
Sulak Sivaraksa - Responses to Sulak Sivaraksa
Gordon D. Kaufman and John Berthrong - Redemptive Community in Christianity
Rosemary Radford Ruether - Responses to Rosemary Ruether
Rita M. Gross and David W. Chappell
Science, Hermeneutical Scepticism, and Social-Economic Theory, p. 247
- Preliminary Statement
Fred J. Streng - The Tension between Religion and Culture
Paula M. Cooey - The Study of Religion as a Religious Experience
Rita M. Gross - Religious Identity and the Global Community
David W. Chappell
NEWS AND NOTES
Edited by Donald W. Mitchell
Contemporary Issues in the Americanization of Zen, p. 267
S. I. Shapiro
A Buddhist Monk’s View of Theological Encounter III, p. 273
Gudo Wafu Nishijima
Monastics Group News and Views, p. 283
- Fourth East-West Spiritual Exchange
Roger CorlessContemplation Revisited
Jean Leclercq
God and Absolute Nothingness, p. 289
Joos Sinke, trans. by Patricia Griffiths
The Baar Statement. Religious Plurality: Theological Perspectives and Affirmations, p. 297
In Memoriam: Father Hugo Makibi Enomiya-Lasalle, 1898-1990, p. 303
Klaus Luhmer
BOOK REVIEWS, p. 307
Eiko Kawamura on The Selected Works of Nishitani Keiji
David P. Killen on Christianity through Non-Christian Eyes, ed. Paul J. Griffiths
Marilyn F. Nefsky on Corless, The Vision of Buddhism
Norman J. Girardot on Almond, The British Discovery of Buddhism
Michael Saso on Snodgrass, The Matrix and Diamond World Mandalas in Shingon Buddhism
Bonnie Thurston on Keenan, The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology
Elisabeth Benard on My Tibet, text by Fourteenth Dalai Lama and photographs by Galen Rowell
Yutaka Tanaka on Honda, Choetsusha to jiko (The transcendental and the self: an essay on the Takizawa-Abe controversy)
Anne C. Klein on Boucher, Turning the Wheel: American Women Creating the New Buddhism, and Sakhyadhita: Daughters of the Buddha, ed. Karma Lekshe Tsomo
S. I. Shapiro on Davis, Monastery without Walls: Daily Life in the Silence
S. I. Shapiro on Moon, The Life and Letters of Tofu Roshi
S. I. Shapiro and David M. Sherrill on Tanahashi, Brush Mind
Paul O. Ingram on Plain Words on the Pure Land Way: Sayings of the Wandering Monks of Medieval Japan, trans. Dennis Hirota