The cosmic breath : spirit and nature in the Christianity-Buddhism-science trialogue / / by Amos Yong.

• Superior document: Philosophical studies in science and religion, v. 4
• Author: Yong, Amos.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Philosophical studies in science and religion ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

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.