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Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (with Paul F. Knitter)

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In introducing the topics for our Buddhist-Christian conversation, I would like to follow the advice of my feminist theologian friends and take a personal approach. I think I can make clear why I am eager to talk with Professor Abe by first speaking about what I did in the summer of 1987 and what happened to me.

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  1. John S. Dunne, The Way of All the Earth (New York: Macmillan, 1972).

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  2. See Paul F. Knitter, ‘Merton’s Eastern Remedy for Christianity’s Anonymous Dualism’, Cross Currents, Vol. 31 (1981), pp. 285–95.

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  3. John B. Cobb, Jr., Beyond Dialogue: Toward a Mutual Transformation of Christianity and Buddhism (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982).

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  4. Shin’ichi Hisamatsu (1889–1980), Professor of Buddhism at Kyoto University in Japan. See Masao Abe, ‘Hisamatsu’s Philosophy of Awakening’, The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 14 (1981), pp. 26–42 and’ Hisamatsu Shin’ichi, 1889–1980’, The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 14 (1981), pp. 142–9.

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  5. Masao Abe, ‘Sovereignty Rests with Mankind’, in Zen and Western Thought (New York: Macmillan; Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1985), pp. 249–60. This essay was inspired by Hisamatsu’s idea of true sovereignty.

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  6. Shin’ichi Hisamatsu, ‘Ultimate Crisis and Resurrection’, The Eastern Buddhist, Vol. 8 (1975), p. 64.

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  1. Nara University of Education, Japan

    Masao Abe (Professor Emeritus)

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  1. Pennsylvania State University, USA

    Steven Heine (Associate Professor of Religious Studies) (Associate Professor of Religious Studies)

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Abe, M. (1995). Spirituality and Liberation: A Buddhist-Christian Conversation (with Paul F. Knitter). In: Heine, S. (eds) Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13454-0_19

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