What Christians Can Learn From Buddhism - Rethinking Salvation

Informationen zum Autor Kristin Johnston Largen is associate professor of systematic theology at Gettysburg Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where she has taught for the last eight years. Her most recent publication is Finding God among Our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology (Fortress Press, 2013). She is also the editor of Dialog . Klappentext Kristen Johnston Largen in this exciting volume takes the reader on such a pilgrimage into Buddhism, ultimately to address what we as Christians might mean by salvation. It first explores the model of comparative theology and the meanings of salvation, or soteriology, in Christian tradition. It then reviews the chief outlines of the Buddhist worldview and explores the concept of salvation in Buddhism. Then Largen returns to the Christian tradition to show what Buddhists us can teach about themselves and ourselves.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Johnston Largen
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2009
• EAN: 9780800663285
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-6328-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Facets
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous