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© in This Web Service Cambridge University Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-43536-0 - Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination Michael Barnes Index More information Index Abhishiktananda, 74, 75, 134, 135, 145 Benedict XVI, Pope, 138, 179, 180, 184, 185 Acarya, 135 Bergman, Shmuel Hugo, 101, 102 Agnosticism, 261 Bernard of Clairvaux, St, 173 Ali, Imam, 214 Bertone, Cardinal, 185 Almsgiving, 208, 209 Bhagavad Gita, 40, 135, 183, 216, 228 Amritsar, 245 Bhagavata Purana, 226, 227, 228, 233 Anandpur, 241, 242 Bhakti, 21, 39, 57, 75, 211, 226, 228 Anonymous Christianity, 10, 12, 15 saguna and nirguna, 249, 250, 251 Anselm, St., xv, 13, 19, 59, 61, 116, 165 Bhakti-marga, 46 Anti-Judaism, 116 bin Laden, Osama, 182 Anti-Semitism, 92, 121–2 Body of Christ, 163 Appleby, Scott, 204, 205 Bonaventure, St, 173, 211 Aquinas, St. Thomas, 255, 258, 264 Bosch, David, 76, 99 Arendt, Hannah, 65, 66 Brown, Christopher, 167 Arjun, Guru, 44, 245 Brueggemann, Walter, 125, 126, 127, 163 Armour, Rollin, 190 Buber, Martin, ix, 5, 94, 95, 97, 100–2, 104, 108, Arnold, Matthew, 71 118, 125, 126, 129, 131, 206 Asceticism, 143, 154, 161, 220, 230, 231, 251 Buckley, Michael, 36 Ashramic spirituality, 135, 136 Buddha, 148, 151, 156, 221, 236 Aśrama, 135 and Jesus, 157–9 Atheism, 59, 74, 130 First Sermon of, 147 Augustine, St., 25, 33, 55, 60, 62, 65, 115, 116, 119, form body/transcendent body, 167 138, 165, 173, 179, 236, 249, 252, 258 silence of, 164 Auschwitz, 48–50, 60, 66–7, 113 Buddhadasa, Bhikkhu, 158 Ayoub, Mahmoud, 186 Buddhism, 5, 7, 30, 31, 39, 43, 56, 77, 81, 114, 136, 147, 235, 236 Badawi, Zaki, 183 Abhidharma, 39 Bahira, 190 Anatmavada, 43, 82, 158 Ballantyne, Tony, 37 and Christianity, 157–64, 170, 174–5, 235–7 ‘Banality of evil’ (see Arendt) 65, 113 bodhisattva, 3 Barnes, Michael, 10, 11, 17, 138, 154, 206, 232, 236 brahmanical background, 82 Barth, Karl, 12, 13 Buddhadharma, 43 Basil of Caesarea, St, 139 Buddhist theology, 81 Batchelor, Stephen, 43, 44, 56, 57, 81 compassion, 80, 150 Baumann, Gerd, 28 construction of, 43–4 Beattie, Tina, 59 cross-cultural, 82 Beise Kiblinger, Kristin, 17, 19 Dhammapada, 236 Belief Dharma, 56, 82, 168, 170 and commitment, 252 Engaged, 157 and trust, 252 enlightenment, 4 faith and, 41, 54 First Noble Truth, 147, 160 282 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-43536-0 - Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination Michael Barnes Index More information Index 283 Four Noble Truths, 147 as school of faith, 225 ‘gnostic agape’, 228 as subculture, 85 ‘gnostic idiom’, 151 Buddhist meditation and, 149 karma, 230 Buddhist yoga and, 146 karuna, 80, 150 Creeds-, 223, 248, 249, 251–2 Mahayana, 4, 161, 164, 166, 167, 249 Discipleship, 47 meditation, 24, 141 Eucharist, xi, 6 Middle Way, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 164 Finality of, 10 mindfulness, 146–9 ‘gnostic agape’, 154 Nirvana, 5, 83, 147 in Asia, 79 Noble Eightfold Path, 141, 147, 148 in the Enlightenment, 35 pratityasamutpada, 162, 163, 171 influenced by other religions, 243 renouncer culture, 143 Jewish roots, 125 scholastic traditions, 57 Jewishness of, 92 Second Noble Truth, 147 Love of God, 186 silence of God, and, 164–6 Monastic tradition, 69 skandhas, 160 Participation in life of God, 193 śunyata, ‘emptiness’, 82 Paschal Mystery, 169, 174, 195, 240 Theravada, 3, 39, 56, 150, 151, 158, 159, 160 Prayer, 151, 152 Trinitarian resonances, 167 Relationship with Buddhism, 170 universal significance of, 82 Resurrection, 162 upekkha, 148 Universal significance, 82 Vinaya, 148 Christians and Hindus, 137 Vipassana, 149, 152 Christology, 13, 15, 167, 223, 224, 236, 258 Western misunderstanding of, 81 Chrysostom, St John, 115 wisdom and compassion, 150 Church, 163 yoga and, 143, 145–6 Body of Christ, 163 Zen, 3, 4, 6, 8, 78, 147, 149, 155–7, 166, 170, 221, Changed attitude to Jews, 114 222, 237, 265 and mission, 200 Buddhist–Christian encounter non-Christians and, 104 ‘cosmic and metacosmic’ religion (see Pieris) Clarke, J. J., 42 84–5 ‘Clash of civilisations’, 118, 205 inculturation, 80–3 Clooney, Francis X., 18–21, 23, 46, 55, 126, 127, examples of, 80 199, 227, 238 Buddhology, 167, 168, 236 Cohen, Arthur, 92, 98, 106 Burnouf, Eugene, 43 Collins, Steven, 5, 119, 149, 159 Burrell, David, 198 Common Word, A, 184–9, 198, 200, 243 Burrows, William, 225 Communities of faith, 52 religions as, 7, 32 Cantwell Smith, Wilfred, 31, 32, 33, 34, 37, Comparative theology, xi, 9, 10, 17–18, 19, 20, 21, 40–1, 43, 44, 45, 52, 53, 56, 62, 65, 22, 31, 74, 87, 236, 238, 243 69, 183 function of, 13 Cassian, St. John, 138 in dialogue, 108 Caste system, 251 in Islamic mode, 189 Cavanaugh, William, 30, 36, 204 supporting life of faith, 238 Centering prayer, 144 Congar, Yves, 239, 255, 258, 259 Chalcedon, 223, 224, 237, 265 Contemplation, 143, 144, 156, 161 Cheetham, David, 11 Contemplative discernment, 225 Cherbury, Lord Herbert of, 36 ‘Conviction of meaning’, faith as, 41, 47, 51, Christianity 153, 206 ‘agapeic idiom’, 151 Corless, Roger, 83, 161 anthropology, 13 Cornille, Catherine, 110, 136, 232, 243, 246 and Buddhism, 157–64, 170, 174–5, 235–7 ‘cosmic and metacosmic’ religiosity, 84 and Islam, 207–8 Covenant, 50, 103, 107, 116, 125, 132, 254 and other religions, 218 with all humanity, 128 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-43536-0 - Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination Michael Barnes Index More information 284 Index Cragg, Kenneth, 195, 223 crossing boundaries, 243 Creation, 15, 40, 74, 158, 159, 195, 198 dialogical and dialectical, 109 as speech, 102 discerning the Spirit in, 257 out of nothing, 159 encountering new potential, 100 story of, 127 enhancing faith, 140 Creeds, 32, 223, 248, 249, 251–2 ethical and political implications of, xiii Crisp, Oliver, 224 expectations of, 106, 188 Culture, 69, 70–3 human experience as, 103 and faith, 170 in reality of the everyday, xii as literature and art, 70 inculturation as, 85 as making, 70 interreligious, forms of, 7 as way of life, 71 learning as object of, 174 assimilation of faith, 76 need for, 15 cultivating history and tradition, 72 of spiritual experience, xiii nature and, 70 orientation and realisation (see Buber) 101 religion and, 69, 73–6 Platonic, 263 ‘Structure of feeling’, 71 Platonic and Buberian, 109 transformation by the Spirit, 225 spirituality of, 95, 139, 171, 173, 206 ‘Cumulative traditions’, religions as (see Wilfred supporting learning, 171 Cantwell Smith) 41, 45, 52 truth and meaning in, 110 Cusa, Nicholas of, 34, 35, 37 value of, 95 virtues of, 110, 120 D’Costa, Gavin, 10, 11, 13, 18, 30, 36, 37, 41, 53 Difference Dabru Emet, 104, 105, 106, 243 ‘Dignity of difference’, 118, 125 Dalai Lama, 83 Discernment, 219 dalit theology, 154 Discipleship, 174, 210, 224 darśana, 21 in dialogue with other, 237 Dawkins, Richard, 59 in Sikhism, 242 de Certeau, Michel, 86, 87, 172, 173 inspired by the Spirit, 260 de Giorgi, Maria, 77 prophetic responsibility, 237 de Nobili, Roberto, 19, 20, 75 Doctrine, 36, 52, 142 de Silva, Lynn, 162, 169 Dogmatic theology, 172 deLillo, Don, 220 Dominus Iesus, 15, 54, 55, 257 Desire, 142, 147, 217 Doxology, 253 channelling of (see spirituality) 149, 156, 207, Dupuis, Jacques, 10, 19, 40, 54, 108, 219, 246 127, 258 Devotio Moderna, 173, 211 Durkheim, Émile, 24, 30 Dharma,, 31 Dialogue, 7, 8, 9, 13, 15, 17, 78, 109, 186 Eagleton, Terry, 70, 71 aim to promote peace, 180 Ecclesiology, 15, 16 allowing questions to be heard, 200 Ehrenberg, Rudolf, 96 and encounter, 40 Eichmann, 65 and theological virtues, 183 Eliade, Mircea, 144 as learning, 188, 266 Empathy, 110 between Buddhists and Christians, 158 Enlightenment (in Buddhism), 4, 56, 82, 151, 161, between Christianity and Islam, 203 168, 236 between God and creatures, 103–8 Enlightenment (The European), 29, 35, 37, between Jews and Christians, 106 59, 126 between persons of faith, 53 Enomiya-Lassalle, Hugo, 78, 149, 150 Buberian, ix, 163, 263 Enstasy (see also yoga) 143 Buddhist–Christian, 166 Equanimity, 152 call for in theology, 108 Eschatology, 92, 224 Christian mission and, 14 Esposito, John, 183, 192 conducive to peace, 108 Ethics, 9 critique in, 237 and politics of inter-faith © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-43536-0 - Interreligious Learning: Dialogue, Spirituality and the Christian Imagination Michael Barnes Index More information Index 285 Eucharist, 6 covenant with humanity, 128 European Renaissance, 34 creation, 102, 159 creation (in Islam), 209 Faith, 51–4 creation, act of loving creator, 198 act of trust, 61 creator, 127 and doubt, 234 discerned in the ordinary, 5 and inter-faith, 9, 87, 137, 139, 140, 236 election of Israel, 128 and reason, 180 eternal Thou, 102 ‘become culture’, 85 found in relationship, 251 becoming ideology, 63–7 immanent and transcendent, 229, 231 belief and, 41, 54 in Christ and in the Spirit, 257 commitment to truth, 53 in everyday experience, 16 communication of, 77 in everyday forms, 69 communities of faith, 52 in Sikhism, 245, 250 ‘conviction of meaning’, 51, 55, 212 incomparability of (Islam), 195 interpersonal dimension of, 53 known through Christ, 158 journey of, 56 known through creation, 15 language of, 251 love of, 186 love and, 62 name of, 174, 249, 250 meaning and, 60 of Israel, 94 orientation to neighbour, 53 participating in the world, 231 past and future, 58, 63 presence of, 54, 102 personal quality, 52 revealed as Father of Jesus, 174 scientific enquiry and, 60 revealed as person, 211 total response of, 53 revelation in Christ, 15, 124, 234 understanding and, 59–60, 61, 62 revelation in Torah, 234 Faivre, Daniel, 28 salvific will of, 16 Fasting, 207 self-communicating, 174 Fenech, Louis E., 241, 246 self-giving, 159, 195 Fenn, Richard, 63, 64, 115 self-revelation in Christ, 125 Fisher, Eugene, 114 sovereignty of, 195 Flood, Gavin, 31, 42, 136 transcendence of, 194 Ford, David, 10, 31, 129, 222 Trinity, 195 Francis of Assisi, St., 201 Goddard, Hugh, 189 Fredericks, James L., 10, 18 Goenka, S.
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