EDITORIAL by Mahinda Deegalle, v
ARTICLES
The Prospects for a Mahāyāna Theology of Emptiness: A Continuing Debate
John P. Keenan, 3
“Till Death Do Us Part”? Buddhist Insights on Christian Marriage
Wioleta Polinska, 29
AUTHORITY IN BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.
ENBCS Conference Papers edited by Perry Schmidt-Leukel
Introduction: Authority in Buddhism and Christianity
Elizabeth Harris, 41
The Crisis of Authority: From Holy Obedience to Bold Moral Imagination in European Christianity
Kajsa Ahlstrand, 49
The Crisis of Authority: Buddhist History for Buddhist Practitioners
Rita M. Gross, 59
Scriptural Authority: A Christian (Protestant) Perspective
Reinhold Bernhardt, 73
Scriptural Authority: A Buddhist Perspective
Shi Zhiru, 85
Spiritual Authority: A Christian Perspective
Karl Baier, 107
Spiritual Authority: A Buddhist Perspective
Shenpen Hookham, 121
Institutional Authority: A Christian Perspective
Terrence Merrigan, 133
Institutional Authority: A Buddhist Perspective
Dhammanandā Bhikkhunī (Chatsumarn Kabilsingh), 147
Political Authority: A Christian Perspective
Michael von Brück, 159
Political Authority: The Two Wheels of the Dharma
Whalen Lai, 171
NEWS AND VIEWS edited by Peter A. Huff
Eighth Conference of the European Network of Buddhist-Christian Studies
John D’Arcy May, 189
Eleventh General Meeting of the International Thomas Merton Society
Christine Bochen, 195
The Annual Meeting of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Sandra Costen Kunz and Amos Yong, 197
BOOK REVIEWS edited by Alice A. Keefe
Benjamin J. Chicka on Tao Jiang, Contexts and Dialogue: Yogācāra Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind, and Jonathan Bricklin, ed., Sciousness, 201
Rita M. Gross on Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Monopoly on Salvation? A Feminist Approach to Religious Pluralism, 205
Nancy R. Howell on Paul O. Ingram, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science, 209
Peter A. Huff on Paul F. Knitter, Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian, 211
Brian Karafin on Sallie B. King, Socially Engaged Buddhism, 215
Kristin Johnston Largen on Bonnie Bowman Thurston, ed., Merton and Buddhism: Wisdom, Emptiness and Everyday Mind, 218
Terry C. Muck on Alan Strathern, Kingship and Conversion in Sixteenth-Century Sri Lanka: Portuguese Imperialism in a Buddhist Land, 221
Jeff Wilson on Richard K. Payne, ed., Path of No Path: Contemporary Studies in Pure Land Buddhism Honoring Roger Corless, 225
James A. Wiseman on Sunghae Kim and James W. Heisig, eds., Monasticism, Buddhist and Christian: The Korean Experience, 228
Amos Yong on Robert Wilkinson, Nishida and Western Philosophy, 231




