Beyond Boundaries

Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel
© Waxmann
Melanie Barbato, Mathias Schneider, Fabian Völker (Editor)
with the assistance of Madlen Krüger

Perry Schmidt-Leukel has made significant contributions to the academic study of religion and religious diversity through his innovative work in Theology and Religious Studies. In his publications, he has not only overcome apologetic barriers between Buddhism and Christianity and demonstrated the potential for mutual enrichment of various religious traditions in dialogue, but also championed a pluralist Theology of Religions. On this pluralist basis, Schmidt-Leukel has developed the vision of a theology beyond boundaries, which takes the form of interreligious discourse and draws on the rich resources and insights of the global history of religions.

This Festschrift in honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel on the occasion of his seventieth birthday brings together essays that constructively engage with his erudite and wide-ranging contributions to the fields of Theology of Religions, Interreligious Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Buddhist and Religious Studies, Buddhist-Christian Relations, and Interreligious Dialogue.

With contributions by
Melanie Barbato, Reinhold Bernhardt, Thomas Cattoi, Catherine Cornille, Rose Drew, Joachim Gentz, Elizabeth J. Harris, Stephen E. Harris, Paul Hedges, Dennis Hirota, Christopher V. Jones, Reinhard Kirste, Paul F. Knitter, Madlen Krüger, Pan-chiu Lai, Andreas Nehring, Bernhard Nitsche, Gregor Paul, Alan Race, Achim Riggert, Martin Rötting, Kenneth Rose, Mathias Schneider, Reza Shah-Kazemi, Fabian Völker

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  • Inhaltsübersicht

    Paul F. Knitter
    Foreword

    Melanie Barbato, Mathias Schneider, Fabian Völker
    Introduction

    Part 1: Theology of Religions

    Alan Race
    Religious Experience in an Interfaith Context

    Reinhold Bernhardt
    A New Phenomenology of Religions

    Rose Drew
    Reinterpreting Christianity in the Light of Other Religions: Authority, Dissent, and the Question of Belonging

    Achim Riggert
    Dialogue and the Theology of Religions: Perspectives of Paul F. Knitter and Perry Schmidt-Leukel in Conversation

    Part 2: Interreligious Theology

    Catherine Cornille
    The Question of Appropriation in Comparative and Interreligious Theology

    Reza Shah-Kazemi
    Comparative Compassion: Muslim and Buddhist Perspectives on Soteriology as Upāya

    Mathias Schneider
    Towards an Interreligious Eschatology: Hermeneutical, Methodological, and Systematic Considerations

    Part 3: Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

    Gregor Paul
    Humaneness as Decisive Criterion of Acceptable Religious Faith: Perry Schmidt-Leukel’s Pluralist Theology of Religions as a Contribution to Universal Ethics

    Andreas Nehring
    Spirituality and Art: Transgressions in the Context of Religious Pluralism

    Bernhard Nitsche
    Dimensions of Human Personhood and Forms of Divine Transcendence: A Hypothesis in the Philosophy of Religion

    Kenneth Rose
    Wet Contemplation or Dry Contemplation? A Fractally Recurring Controversy in Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism

    Fabian Völker
    Transcendence, Reason, and Self-Annihilation: Interreligious Theology and Transcendental Philosophy of Religion

    Part 4: Interreligious Dialogue

    Paul Hedges
    Does Perry Schmidt-Leukel Have a Theory of Interreligious Dialogue? On Interreligious Theology as Dialogical Activity

    Martin Rötting
    Interreligious Dialogue and the Future of Religion: Fractal Elements and Third Spaces

    Reinhard Kirste
    Dialogical-Mystical Approaches to “the Ultimate”: John Hick and Perry Schmidt-Leukel

    Melanie Barbato
    Clusters of Identity in Interreligious Dialogue

    Part 5: Buddhism in Dialogue

    Dennis Hirota
    Illuminating Dissonance: Shinran’s Naturalness and Eckhart’s Flow

    Thomas Cattoi
    The Logos and gzhang stong: Divine Immanence and Creative Agency in Early Christianity and Tibet

    Elizabeth J. Harris
    Anger and Serenity: A Buddhist-Christian Exploration

    Pan-chiu Lai
    Salvation and Buddhist-Christian Dialogue

    Part 6: Buddhist Studies

    Stephen E. Harris
    The Joke is Saṃsāra: Humor as a Means in Śāntideva’s Bodhisattva Path

    Joachim Gentz
    A New Reading of Míng Tàizǔ’s Essay on the Three Teachings

    Christopher V. Jones
    Reflections on Satyaka Nirgranthaputra: A Model Teacher of Non-Buddhist Religion (Eventually)

Barbato, Melanie/Schneider, Mathias/Völker, Fabian (Hg.): Beyond Boundaries. Essays on Theology, Dialogue, and Religion in Honor of Perry Schmidt-Leukel. Religions in Dialogue 22 (Münster/New York: Waxmann, 2024).