The cosmic breath [[electronic resource] ] : spirit and nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-science trialogue / / by Amos Yong

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910462121203321
• Autore: Yong Amos
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 90-04-23049-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Collana: Philosophical studies in science and religion, , 1877-8542 ; ; v. 4
• Disciplina: 261.2/43
• Soggetti: Religion and science; Christianity and other religions - Buddhism; Buddhism - Relations - Christianity; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- 1. Introduction—Spirit, Science, and the Religions: Pneumatology and Philosophy of Nature in a Pluralistic World -- 2. Spirit and Science: An Emerging Dialogue -- 3. Spirit and Creation: Pneumatology, Genesis 1, and Modern Science -- 4. Spirit and Human Nature: The Breath of Life, Genesis 1–2, and the Neurosciences -- 5. Buddhism and Contemporary Science -- 6. Shunyata: The Nature of the World in Mahayana Traditions -- 7. Self and Becoming Human in Buddhism and Science -- 8. Spirit, Nature, Humanity: A Trialogical Conversation -- 9. Spirit and Method: Science, Religion, and Comparative Theology -- 10. Spirit and Environment: Toward a Christian Ecological Ethic “after” Buddhism -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.