From Christian Supremacist to Buddhist Christian: My Spiritual Journey

Name: From Christian Supremacist to Buddhist Christian: My Spiritual Journey
Brand: Orbis Books
SKU: 978-1-62698-6978
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From Christian Supremacist to Buddhist Christian: My Spiritual Journey

Author:Paul Knitter

Binding: Paperback

ISBN: 9781626986978

Page Count: 288

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⭐Advance Praise and Reviews⭐

“A long-awaited theological memoir—a gripping page-turner? Absolutely, and not just for theological nerds! True, Knitter seems to have met every major theologian and religious thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and found himself in the heart of milestone events in church history, including Vatican II—but what makes this memoir especially winsome is that it is a deeply human story of a heart opening up to and being transformed by the religious lives and wisdoms of Muslims, Hindus, and, most importantly, Buddhists, all while refusing to look away from real material suffering caused by injustice. A fearless liberationist pluralist who writes like a novelist, he has written a must-read memoir that keeps you on the edge of your seat.” —John J. Thatamanil, professor, theology and world religions, Union Theological Seminary

“Paul Knitter's spiritual journey and radical metanoia in relation to other religions is certainly one of the most remarkable of his generation. From a passionate missionary and believer in the exclusive truth of Christianity, he became one of the most famous advocates for religious pluralism and the possibility of religious hybridity. In this book, he opens up about this journey, and shares with characteristic honesty both the difficulties and the joys, the doubts and the revelations he encountered along the way. A moving testimony to a life of spiritual authenticity.”—Catherine Cornille, author, In Between Religions; editor, Sacred Encounters: Stories of Christian Pioneers of Interreligious Dialogue

“Paul Knitter’s inspiring memoir takes us into his living process of learning across religious boundaries that produced one of the most important interfaith thinkers of the modern era.” —John Makransky, theology department, Boston College

“Paul Knitter has kept the faith, defending his way of encountering Christ and then too the Buddha, a witness deepened in solidarity with the marginalized near and far.”—Francis X. Clooney, SJ, author, Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar: A Love Story

In Paul Knitter’s first (1985) book, No Other Name?, he struggled with the question of Christian claims to uniqueness. This led him to explore what he called a “pluralist” approach to interreligious dialogue. Yet in the years since then he has come to define the problem more in terms of “Christian supremacy.” This book is a theological memoir, in which he shows how from his early youth, entry into a Catholic missionary order, studies under Rahner, and subsequent theological career he explored this question—attempting to understand the claims of Christianity in relation to other religious paths. His journey reflects the ongoing development of this question in theology and the Church, and his own spiritual quest, in which these questions were also shaped by the influence of liberation theology and by his own explorations in Buddhism.

Paul Knitter is professor emeritus of Union Theological Seminary; before that he taught at Xavier University for twenty-eight years. For over two decades he served as the editor of the Orbis series Faith Meets Faith. He is author of many books, including No Other Name?; One Earth, Many Religions; Introducing Theologies of Religion; and Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian.

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