Paul D. Numrich (ed.)

The Boundaries of Knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity, and Science

Religion, Theologie und Naturwissenschaft / Religion, Theology, and Natural Science (RThN), Band 15
1. Auflage 2008
200 pages, gebunden
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ISBN 978-3-525-56987-0

About this book

This volume brings together insights from religion (represented by Buddhism and Christianity) and science to address the question, What can we know about reality? Here science and religion engage each other in the human endeavour to understand a reality tantalizingly beyond our ability to understand fully.

Contributors

John R. Albright
Tom Christenson
Dennis Hirota
Paul O. Ingram
Antje Jackelén
Gordon D. Kaufman
David L. McMahan
Paul D. Numrich
Trinh Xuan Thuan
Mark T. Unno

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Daniela Hacke, sehepunkte

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Content

Preface
Paul D. Numrich

Chapter 1
Reality and Knowledge
Paul D. Numrich

Chapter 2
Science and Buddhism: Two Complementary Modes of Knowledge
Trinh Xuan Thuan

Chapter 3
Buddhism and the Epistemic Discourses of Modernity
David L. McMahan

Chapter 4
Shinran and Heidegger on Truth
Dennis Hirota

Chapter 5
Buddhism, Christianity, and Physics: An Epistemological Turn
Mark T. Unno

Chapter 6
Constrained by Boundaries
Paul O. Ingram

Chapter 7
Mystery and God: Living within the Boundaries of Human Knowledge
Gordon D. Kaufman

Chapter 8
“Knowing Too Much Is Knowing Too Little”: A Theological Appraisal of the Boundaries of Knowledge
Antje Jackelen

Chapter 9
The Oddest Word: Paradoxes of Theological Discourse
Tom Christenson

Chapter 10
Limits of Scientific Knowledge
John R. Albright

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