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The cosmic breath : spirit and nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-science trialogue / by Amos Yong.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophical studies in science and religion ; v. 4.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 282 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004205130
  • 9004205136
  • 9781299397804
  • 1299397808
  • 9789004230491
  • 9004230491
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 261.2/43 23
LOC classification:
  • BL240.3 .Y65 2012eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Introduction -- Spirit, Science, and the Religions: Pneumatology and Philosophy of Nature in a Pluralistic World -- Part I: Pneuma: Divine Presence and Nature in the Theology and Science Dialogue. Spirit and Science: An Emerging Dialogue ; Spirit and Creation: Pneumatology, Genesis 1, and Modern Science ; Spirit and Human Nature: The Breath of Life, Genesis 1-2, and the Neurosciences. -- Part II: Shunyata: Nature and Science in Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism and Contemporary Science ; Shunyata: The Nature of the World in Mahayana Traditions ; Self and Becoming Human in Buddhism and Science. -- Part III: Pneuma and Shunyata: Nature, the Environment, and the Christian-Buddhist-Science Trialogue. Spirit, Nature, Humanity: A Trialogical Conversation ; Spirit and Method: Science, Religion, and Comparative Theology ; Spirit and Environment: Toward a Christian Ecological Ethic "after" Buddhism.
Summary: "Recent thinking in the interfaith dialogue and in the theology-science dialogue have taken a "pneumatological turn." The Cosmic Breath explores this pneumatological theology as unfolded in the Christian-Buddhist dialogue alongside critical interaction with the theology-and-science conversation. As an attempt in comparative and constructive Christian philosophical theology, its central thesis is that a pneumatological approach to Buddhist traditions in further dialogue with modern science generates new philosophical resources that invigorate Christian thinking about the natural world and humanity's place in it. The result is a transformation of the Buddhist-Christian dialogue from insights generated in the theology-and-science interface and a contribution to the religion-and-science dialogue from a comparative theological and philosophical perspective."--Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"Recent thinking in the interfaith dialogue and in the theology-science dialogue have taken a "pneumatological turn." The Cosmic Breath explores this pneumatological theology as unfolded in the Christian-Buddhist dialogue alongside critical interaction with the theology-and-science conversation. As an attempt in comparative and constructive Christian philosophical theology, its central thesis is that a pneumatological approach to Buddhist traditions in further dialogue with modern science generates new philosophical resources that invigorate Christian thinking about the natural world and humanity's place in it. The result is a transformation of the Buddhist-Christian dialogue from insights generated in the theology-and-science interface and a contribution to the religion-and-science dialogue from a comparative theological and philosophical perspective."--Publisher's website.

Introduction -- Spirit, Science, and the Religions: Pneumatology and Philosophy of Nature in a Pluralistic World -- Part I: Pneuma: Divine Presence and Nature in the Theology and Science Dialogue. Spirit and Science: An Emerging Dialogue ; Spirit and Creation: Pneumatology, Genesis 1, and Modern Science ; Spirit and Human Nature: The Breath of Life, Genesis 1-2, and the Neurosciences. -- Part II: Shunyata: Nature and Science in Mahayana Buddhism. Buddhism and Contemporary Science ; Shunyata: The Nature of the World in Mahayana Traditions ; Self and Becoming Human in Buddhism and Science. -- Part III: Pneuma and Shunyata: Nature, the Environment, and the Christian-Buddhist-Science Trialogue. Spirit, Nature, Humanity: A Trialogical Conversation ; Spirit and Method: Science, Religion, and Comparative Theology ; Spirit and Environment: Toward a Christian Ecological Ethic "after" Buddhism.

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