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Congregations cannot exist without finances, priorities,
leadership, worship, and decision making, yet these five aspects
breed the most conflict between church members and clergy. These
conflicts unfortunately tend to bring about the most negative
consequences: drops in giving, resignation of leaders, and, perhaps
most pointedly, loss of members. The importance of congregations
and their effect on our lives is clear, yet what is less clear is
what makes conflicts in faith communities inevitable. In Promise
and Peril: Understanding and Managing Change and Conflict in
Congregations, David Brubaker brings the tools of organizational
theory and research to the task of understanding the deeper
dynamics of congregational conflict. With a doctorate in sociology
and more than twenty years working with congregational conflicts,
Brubaker helps to explore the causes and effects of conflicts on a
wide range of congregations. This book will help congregations
avoid the pitfalls of conflict and instead head toward a healthy
relationship between and among church staff and members.
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing
through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as
Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging
the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions,
Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional
opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a
Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent
co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and
beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or
eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The
thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their
discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the
flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with
the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the
Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou
meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land
Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho.
Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism explores a new mode of philosophizing
through a comparative study of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's
phenomenology and philosophies of major Buddhist thinkers such as
Nagarjuna, Chinul, Dogen, Shinran, and Nishida Kitaro. Challenging
the dualistic paradigm of existing philosophical traditions,
Merleau-Ponty proposes a philosophy in which the traditional
opposites are encountered through mutual penetration. Likewise, a
Buddhist worldview is articulated in the theory of dependent
co-arising, or the middle path, which comprehends the world and
beings in the third space, where the subject and the object, or
eternalism and annihilation, exist independent of one another. The
thirteen essays in this volume explore this third space in their
discussions of Merleau-Ponty's concepts of the intentional arc, the
flesh of the world, and the chiasm of visibility in connection with
the Buddhist doctrine of no-self and the five aggregates, the
Tiantai Buddhist concept of threefold truth, Zen Buddhist huatou
meditation, the invocation of the Amida Buddha in True Pure Land
Buddhism, and Nishida's concept of basho. In his philosophical
project, Merleau-Ponty makes vigorous efforts to challenge the
boundaries that divide philosophy and non-philosophy, the East and
the West, experience and concepts, the subject and the object, and
body and mind. Combining the Eastern philosophical tradition of
Buddhism with Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty and
Buddhism offers an intercultural philosophy in which opposites
intermingle in a chiasmic relationship, and which brings new
understanding regarding the self and the self's relation with
others in a globalized and multicultural world.
This book is a revolutionary explanation of the book of Revelation
as a serious resource for spiritual growth, not a book of doomsday
predictions. The God of love is not plotting doomsday! A story of
past, present, and future ("the things which thou hast seen, and
the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter" -
Rev. 1:19), Revelation is an epic of our growing spiritual
consciousness.
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