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The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism (Hardcover)
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The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism (Hardcover)
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In The Spirit of Contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism, Hugh
Nicholson examines the role of social identity processes in the
development of two religious concepts: the Christian doctrine of
Consubstantiality and the Buddhist doctrine of No-self.
Consubstantiality, the claim that the Son is of the same substance
as the Father, forms the basis of the doctrine of the Trinity,
while No-self, the claim that the personality is reducible to its
impersonal physical and psychological constituents, is a defining
tenet of Theravada Buddhism. Both doctrines are massively
counterintuitive in that they violate our basic assumptions and
understandings about the world. While cognitive approaches to the
study of religion have explained why these doctrines have
difficulty taking root in popular religious thought, they are
largely silent on the question of why these concepts have developed
in the first place. Nicholson aims to fill this gap by examining
the historical development of these two concepts. Nicholson argues
that both of these doctrines were the products of hegemonic
struggles in which one faction tried to get the upper hand over the
other by maximizing the contrast with the dominant subgroup. Thus
the "pro-Nicene" theologians of the fourth century developed the
concept of Consubstantiality in an effort to maximize, against
their "Arian" rivals, the contrast with Christianity's archetypal
"other," Judaism. Similarly, the No-self doctrine stemmed from an
effort to maximize, against the so-called Personalist schools of
Buddhism, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism, symbolized by its
doctrine of the deathless self. In this way, Nicholson demonstrates
how, to the extent that religious traditions are driven by social
identity processes, they back themselves into doctrinal positions
that they must then retrospectively justify.
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