Emptiness, kenosis, history, and dialogue: the Christian response to Masao Abe's notion of "dynamic sunyata" in the early years of the Abe-Cobb Buddhist-Christian dialogue.(Essays)

From: Buddhist-Christian Studies | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

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Between 1980 and 1993, the Japanese Zen scholar Masao Abe resided in the United States, teaching in various places. (1) This brought him into contact with many American scholars and theologians, among whom was John Cobb, a Protestant theologian then working in the area of process theology. Many of the ideas that Abe brought from Japanese Buddhism and particularly from the "Kyoto School" of Japanese philosophy appeared to Cobb intriguingly congruent with his theological work, and the two began a series of dialogues that came to include a larger and larger circle ...

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