Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World

--With a Little Help from Nagarjuna

By: John P. Keenan, Sydney Copp, Lansing Davis

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This book draws upon the Mahayana philosophy developed within Buddhism, employing it as a means to empty our usual alternatives for viewing the world's many religions--whether exclusivism, inclusivism, or pluralism. The aim is to free people from clinging to intellectual positions, enabling them gently but committedly to affirm their vernacular tradition as it is practiced on the ground. It critiques the above three options, and introduces the Mahayana philosophy of emptiness and dependent arising, along with its distinction between ultimate truth and conventional truth. It then applies this philosophy to an urgent question that bedevils modern people: how to practice one's chosen faith in the awareness of many other honored and attractive paths, both elegant and efficacious.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
A World of Many Faiths
When faith meets faith	p. 1
Exclusivism: possessing the true picture	p. 6
Inclusivism: possessing the complete picture	p. 8
How do we get beyond inclusivism?	p. 14
Whose revelation? Whose scripture?	p. 17
Pluralism: the picture gallery	p. 21
The trouble with pluralism	p. 27
Toward a Workable Philosophy of Religions
If not pluralism, what?	p. 31
Going to ground and learning the vernacular	p. 35
Developing new apologetics	p. 39
The Useful Philosophies of Mahayana Buddhism
The distinction between Buddhist doctrine and Mahayana philosophy	p. 46
The development of Mahayana philosophy	p. 49
The Middle Path of Madhyamika
The philosophy of emptiness	p. 52
Emptiness as dependent arising	p. 56
Two truths-ultimate and conventional	p. 62
The truth of faith liberated from the absolute	p. 67
Yogacara's Analysis of the Mind of Faith
Nagging questions about emptiness	p. 72
Practitioners of introspection	p. 74
Becoming conscious of consciousness	p. 78
The mind as the very model of dependent arising	p. 81
Three patterns of thinking	p. 83
Contemplating the truth of scripture and doctrine	p. 87
Grounding our Faith in a Pluralist World
Apologetics from the ground	p. 91
Culturally sensitive hermeneutics	p. 93
Truth and convention	p. 96
The emptiness and dependent arising of traditions	p. 100
Interfaith conversation in a Mahayana mode	p. 103
Wrapping up (a non-conclusion)	p. 109
Bibliography	p. 117
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