Toward a Theravadin Christology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19428831 |
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| Authors | Michael G Fonner (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Pages | 3 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Buddhist-Christian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0882-0945 • E-ISSN: 1527-9472 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1389869 |
| OpenAlex | W2331414507 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
What mightJesus Christ look like through Theravada Buddhist eyes? Or, asked otherwise, amid the current interest in thinking about central Christian symbols in the language of Buddhism, how might christology be done in the language of the Theravadin tradition? An adequate answer to these questions could no doubt be the subject of numerous essays, books, and doctoral dissertations, among the last of which I hope mine will be, but for now this essay will sketch out in a preliminary fashion only one possibility and one problem. By possibility, I mean a central Theravadin insight that, I believe, can be relatively easily adopted and adapted in christological reflection; I will look at dukkha. The problem considered here -the Theravadin stance vis-a-vis God-denotes a dimension of the tradition
Christology · Theology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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