Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Christian Theology Entering the Middle Way -- Spirit, Creation, and Human Nature: Divine Presence in Pneumatological Perspective -- Shunyata: The World and Becoming Human in East Asian Buddhism -- Toward a Comparative Christian-Buddhist Anthropology -- Becoming Divine: Eastern Orthodoxy and the Desert Tradition of Spirituality -- Perfection and Liberation: Buddhaghosa and the Theravadin Tradition of Self-Renunciation -- Toward a Comparative Christian-Buddhist Soteriology -- Pentecostal Demonologies and the Asian Context -- Buddhist Traditions of the Demonic -- Toward a Comparative Christian-Buddhist Cosmology -- Conclusion: Skillful Means and the Transformation of the Middle Way -- Bibliography -- Scripture Index -- Name Index -- Subject Index.

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Recent thinking in Christian theology of religions has taken a “pneumatological turn” which asks how the doctrine of the Holy Spirit can contribute to the interreligious dialogue and to the emerging discourse of comparative theology. Pneumatology and the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue. Does the Spirit Blow through the Middle Way? tests the viability of this approach as applied to the Christian-Buddhist dialogue. Various Christian and Buddhist traditions are compared and contrasted within a pneumatological framework. Is the Holy Spirit to be found along the Buddha’s middle way? Some Christians say yes, while others demur. The thesis of this volume is that such a pneumatological perspective opens up possibilities for the deepening and transformation of Christian theology in the religiously plural world of the twenty-first century.

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