TY - BOOK AU - Yong,Amos TI - Pneumatology and the Christian-Buddhist dialogue: does the Spirit blow through the middle way? T2 - Studies in systematic theology SN - 9789004231245 AV - BT121.3 .Y66 2012 U1 - 261.2/43 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Holy Spirit KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Buddhism KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Mādhyamika (Buddhism) KW - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General N1 - 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; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004231245 ER -