I Am / No Self: A Christian Commentary on the Heart Sutra (Christian Commentaries on Non-christian Sacred Texts) - Softcover

John P. Keenan; Linda K. Keenan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042924993 ISBN 13: 9789042924994

Publisher: Peeters Publishers, 2011

Synopsis

The place held by the Heart Sutra in Mahayana Buddhism parallels in some important ways that of the Gospel of John in Christianity. Each is foundational and central to its tradition. Each demands the practitioner's transformation through prayer and meditation. And, although the approach to deep and abiding human experience that is found in the Heart Sutra is quite different from that expressed in John's gospel, there is a resonance between the Sutra's emptying of every vestige of self-identity and John's call for a radical reconfiguration of consciousness. In this book, a Christian theologian reads the Heart Sutra, allowing its teaching on emptiness of self to percolate through his understanding of the central teachings of the Christian tradition - incarnation and trinit y - as these are disclosed in the Gospel of John.

About this title

About the Author:

John P. Keenan is professor emeritus of religion at Middlebury College, Vermont. His book The Meaning of Christ: A Mahayana Theology received the first Frederick J. Streng Book Award in Buddhist-Christian Studies.

Linda K. Keenan conducts research in the area of Japanese religious culture and literature. The translator of Beyond Loyalty: The Story of a Kibei, she is also coeditor of Beside Still Waters: Jews, Christians, and the Way of the Buddha.

Review:

Religious Studies Review
“A must-read for serious students and practitioners actively engaged in Buddhist-Christian dialogue.”
 

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters Publishers
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 9042924993
• ISBN 13: 9789042924994
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 314