Dialogues At One Inch Above the Ground: Reclamations of Belief in an Interreligious Age (Nanzan Studies in Religion and Culture)

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Author: James W. Heisig

ISBN-10: 0824521145

ISBN-13: 9780824521141

Category: Buddhism - Comparative Studies

James Heisig has spent his life traveling along many roads—living in Japan, Spain, England, and the United States, and listening to other religious traditions while remaining a Roman Catholic. In this book, Heisig draws from this worldly insight, and presents an invaluable dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism.

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James Heisig writes with humor and clarity about Buddhism as seen from Buddhist and Christian eyes.

Introduction1Sufficiency and Satisfaction: Recovering an Ancient Symbolon5Make-Believe Nature31Catholicizing Health47The Recovery of the Senses: Against the Asceticisms of the Age71Converting Buddhism to Christianity, Christianity to Buddhism105Interreligiosity and Conversion121Six Sutras on Dialogue139Christianity Today: The Transition to Disestablishment159What Time Is It for Christianity?187