Buddhist/Christian dialogue has rarely touched on its interaction with science, yet its importance has immense implications. Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science offers a fresh and exciting view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences. Ingram's comprehensive yet accessible scholarship is uniquely solid in both religion and science, and has the gift of making complex theories understandable....
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science offers a fresh and exciting view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural sciences. Ingram's comprehensive yet accessible scholarship is uniquely solid in both religion and science, and has the gift of making complex theories understandable.
Preface viiA Common Cosmology 1Models of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue with the Natural Sciences 19The Challenge of Contemporary Cosmology 41Christian and Buddhist Responses to Evolutionary Biology 53Buddhist-Christian Dialogue with the Cognitive Sciences 85The Structure of Buddhist-Christian-Science Dialogue 109Selected Bibliography 135Index 143About the Author 155