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Buddhist-Christian dual Belonging Buddhist-Christian dual Belonging affirmations, objections, explorations Edited by gavin d’Costa University of Bristol, UK and ross thompson First published 2016 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business Copyright© 2016 gavin d’Costa and ross Thompson gavin d’Costa and ross Thompson have asserted their right under the Copyright, designs and patents act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafterinvented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage orretrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data a catalogue record for this book is available from the British library The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data names: d’Costa, gavin, 1958- editor. | Thompson, ross, 1953- editor. title: Buddhist-Christian dual belonging : affirmations, objections, explorations / edited by gavin d’Costa and ross Thompson. description: Burlington, vt : ashgate publishing Company, 2016. | includes bibliographical references and index. identifiers: lCCn 2015021665 | isBn 9781472460912 (hardcover) | subjects: lCsh: Christianity and other religions--Buddhism. | Buddhism--relations--Christianity. Classification: lCC Br128.B8 B819 2016 | ddC 261.2/43--dc23 lC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015021665 isBn 9781472460912 (hbk) Contents Notes on the Contributors vii introduction 1 Ross Thompson and Gavin D’Costa part i aFFirmations 1 Chasing two rabbits? dual Belonging and the Question of salvation/liberation 13 Rose Drew 2 The Question of salvation/liberation: a double-Belonger’s perspective 31 Paul F. Knitter 3 Creation, dependent arising and dual Belonging 49 Ross Thompson part ii Challenges 4 ‘There Can Be only one’: The impossibility and idolatry of ‘dual Belonging’ 71 Daniel Strange 5 The ultimate Buddhist religious goal, nirvana and its implications for Buddhist-Christian dual Belonging 89 Asanga Tilakaratne vi Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging 6 a roman Catholic approach to Buddhist-Catholic ‘dual Belonging’ 107 Gavin D’Costa 7 dual Belonging, ritual and the spiritual revolution 123 Marianne Moyaert 8 strategies of negotiation in Buddhist-Christian dual Belonging 143 Catherine Cornille part iii explorations 9 an alternative Conception of multiple religious Belonging: a Buddhist-Catholic perspective 161 Abraham Vélez de Cea 10 The Buddhist Faith of non-Buddhists: From dual Belonging to dual attachment 179 Rupert Gethin 11 dual Belonging and pure land Buddhism 197 Caroline Brazier 12 going Beyond the Creator god: an apophatic approach to Buddhist-Christian dual religious Belonging 217 J.P. Williams Conclusion 233 Ross Thompson and Gavin D’Costa Index 249 notes on Contributors Caroline Brazier is a pureland Buddhist, Buddhist psychotherapist and leader of the tariki training programme in other-Centred psychotherapy. she is also actively involved in the development of Buddhist healthcare Chaplaincy at a local and national level. Caroline is author of six books on Buddhism and psychology, her book The Other Buddhism: Amida Comes West (o-Books, 2007) provides an introduction to pureland thought in a Western context. daughter of a methodist minister, Caroline has an appreciation of the Christian paradigm, and, although she left the tradition many years ago, finds ground for dialogue through her pureland affiliation. Catherine Cornille is the newton College alumnae Chair of Western Culture and professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College. her teaching and research focus on methodological questions in Theology of religions, Comparative Theology and interreligious dialogue. she has authored or edited 16 books in the area of interreligious dialogue, most recently The Im- Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue (Crossroad, 2008), Criteria of Discernment in Interreligious Dialogue (Cascade, 2009), Interreligious Hermeneutics (Cascade, 2010), The World Market and Interreligious Dialogue (Cascade, 2011) Interreligious Dialogue and Cultural Change (Cascade, 2012), Women and Interreligious Dialogue (Cascade, 2013) and The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Inter-Religious Dialogue (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). she is founding editor-in- chief of the book series ‘Christian Commentaries on non-Christian sacred texts’. Gavin D’Costa is professor of Catholic Theology at the university of Bristol. he is author of seven books, most recently: Christianity and the World Religions. Disputed Questions in the Theology of Religions (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009); and Vatican II and the World Religions (oup, 2014) he is an advisor to the vatican, the roman Catholic Bishops in england and Wales and to the Church of england, Board of mission on matters related to other religions. his interests lie in systematic and dogmatic theology, gender and psychoanalysis and the Christian theology of interreligious dialogue. viii Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging Rose Drew, since completing her doctorate in 2008, has lectured in interfaith studies and Buddhism at the university of glasgow and in 2011 held a research scholarship at uppsala university, sweden. her research interests are predominantly in interreligious dialogue (especially Buddhist-Christian) and the theology of religions. her monograph, Buddhist and Christian? An Exploration of Dual Belonging (routledge, 2011), won the 2013 Frederick J. streng award for excellence in Buddhist-Christian studies. rose has also been involved in practical interfaith work for a number of years and currently works full time for charity interfaith scotland, managing a new project to support and develop positive interfaith engagement in glasgow. Rupert Gethin is professor of Buddhist studies at the university of Bristol and president of the pali text society. his books include Sayings of the Buddha: A Selection of Suttas from the Pali Nikāyas (oxford university press, 2008), The Foundations of Buddhism (oxford university press, 1998) and The Buddhist Path to Awakening (leiden, 1992). he has a particular interest in early indian Buddhist literature and indian Buddhist systematic accounts of the mind and meditation. he is currently working on a book provisionally titled Mapping the Buddha’s Mind: A Study of Indian Buddhist Systematic Thought in the Abhidharma of the Theravāda, Sarvāstivāda, and Yogācāra Traditions. Paul Knitter is the paul tillich emeritus professor of Theology, religions and Culture at union Theological seminary in new York City. after spending most of his career in trying to lay the foundations for Christian interreligious dialogue (especially in No Other Name? (1985) and Introducing Theologies of Religions (2002)) he has recently taken up his own comparative theological project in Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian (2009) and is presently co-authoring with roger haight, s.J. Companions of Jesus and Buddha in Conversation: Toward a Mystical-Prophetic Spirituality, to be published by orbis Books. Marianne Moyaert holds the Fenna diemer lindeboom Chair of Comparative Theology and hermeneutics of interreligious dialogue at the Free university of amsterdam. she also teaches at the Ku leuven, Belgium. she has authored three books, including Fragile Identities: Towards a Theology of Interreligious Hospitality (rodopi, 2011), and co-edited Ritual Participation and Interreligious Dialogue: Boundaries, Transgressions and Innovations (Bloomsbury, 2015) (peeters, 2010). she has published over 50 articles, treating a wide range of topics relating to interreligious dialogue, hermeneutics and comparative Notes on Contributors ix theology. her book In Response to the Religious Other: Ricoeur and the Fragility of Interreligious Encounters was published in 2014 (lexington Books). Daniel Strange is academic vice-principal and tutor in Culture, religion and public Theology at oak hill Theological College, london. he is author of The Possibility of Salvation Among the Unevangelised (paternoster, 2001) and For Their Rock is Not as Our Rock: An Evangelical Theology of Religions (apollos, 2014). With gavin d’Costa and paul Knitter, he is co-author of Only One Way? Three Christian Responses on the Uniqueness of Christ in a Pluralistic World (sCm, 2011). he has also contributed to the sCm Core text and reader, Christian Approaches to Other Faiths (sCm, 2008). Ross Thompson is a freelance writer living in Wiltshire. he served for 20 years as a parish priest in Bristol, and taught doctrine and ethics at st michael’s, llandaff and Cardiff university. his recent works include Buddhist Christianity: A Passionate Openness (John hunt, 2010) and Wounded Wisdom: A Buddhist and Christian Response to Evil, Hurt and Harm (John hunt, 2011). he is currently contracted to write The Interfaith Imperative: Dialogue and the Integrity of Theology (Wipf and stock, forthcoming 2016). his main current research interests are exploration of the interface between Christianity, Buddhism and science, and the development of a spirituality drawing on all three. Asanga Tilakaratne graduated from peradeniya university, sri lanka, specialising in Buddhist philosophy, and has a masters in Western philosophy and phd in comparative philosophy from university of hawaii at manoa. Currently he is the professor of pali and Buddhist studies, university of Colombo, sri lanka. he has published, both in sinhala and english, more than 100 papers and authored and edited several books on Buddhist philosophy, philosophy of language, philosophy of religion, practical ethics, contemporary social and political issues, Buddhist epistemology and logic and interreligious understanding, including most recently Theravada Buddhism: The View of Elders (university of hawaii press, 2012). J.P. (Janet) Williams lectures at ripon College Cuddesdon, uK, and is dean of the West of england ministry training Course. her publications include Denying Divinity: Apophasis in the Patristic Christian and the Soto Zen Buddhist Traditions (oup, 2000) The Four Chalcedonian Adverbs: A Reflection on Buddhist-Christian Dual Belonging (forthcoming, in Currents of Encounter: The Typology of Religions, rodopi). her research interests are apophatic traditions

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