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Winner of the 2015 Frederick J. Streng Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies
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.
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.
Price: $222.00
Pages: 284
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Philosophical Studies in Science and Religion
Publication Date:
10 May 2012
ISBN: 9789004205130
Format: Hardcover
In this groundbreaking monograph Professor Amos Yong continues developing his ambitious project of constructive theology in an interfaith environment. Here Christian pneumatology and comparative theology are set in the context of a robust interdisciplinary conversation with natural sciences. Only few scholars possess the width of learning and depth of creative thinking to execute such a program. All subsequent investigations into Buddhist-Christian dialogue must consult and engage this proposal. At the same time, this project is a landmark effort in the rapidly growing interdisciplinary and interfaith investigation into the role of the Spirit in the world. - Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen,
Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary and Docent of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Whew! What an adventure in trialogue! The breadth, depth and scope of Amos Yong’s close readings in theological and biblical studies, the natural sciences and Buddhist traditions all converge in this truly masterful study. Yong’s wide-ranging yet careful engagement with a great host of religious, philosophical and scientific texts, always undertaken in lively conversation with his faithfully Pentecostal yet profoundly liberating pneumatology, is virtually mind-boggling. Inhale The Cosmic Breath and embark upon a richly rewarding, and profoundly educational, journey of the mind and the heart. - Michael Lodahl, Professor of Theology and World Religions, Point Loma Nazarene University
This book is a very valuable, stimulating read benefitting everyone who likes to be intellectually challenged and pushed outside the box of conventional thinking; especially those interested in interreligious dialogue will gain a lot from it.
Christopher Grundmann in Zygon
Professor of Systematic Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary and Docent of Ecumenics, University of Helsinki, Finland
Whew! What an adventure in trialogue! The breadth, depth and scope of Amos Yong’s close readings in theological and biblical studies, the natural sciences and Buddhist traditions all converge in this truly masterful study. Yong’s wide-ranging yet careful engagement with a great host of religious, philosophical and scientific texts, always undertaken in lively conversation with his faithfully Pentecostal yet profoundly liberating pneumatology, is virtually mind-boggling. Inhale The Cosmic Breath and embark upon a richly rewarding, and profoundly educational, journey of the mind and the heart. - Michael Lodahl, Professor of Theology and World Religions, Point Loma Nazarene University
This book is a very valuable, stimulating read benefitting everyone who likes to be intellectually challenged and pushed outside the box of conventional thinking; especially those interested in interreligious dialogue will gain a lot from it.
Christopher Grundmann in Zygon
Amos Yong, Ph.D. (1998) in Systematic Theology, Boston University, is J. Rodman Williams Professor of Theology at Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia, USA, and the author and editor of over twenty-five volumes, including Pneumatology and the Christian-Buddhist Dialogue (Brill, forthcoming).