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In this book Paul O. Ingram adds his voice to a long list of
writers seeking to relate Christian tradition to the hard realities
of this post-Christian age of religious and secular pluralism. As a
Lutheran, Ingram thinks grace flows over this universe like a
waterfall. So he brings Christian mystical theology into a
discussion of the meaning of grace. Alfred North Whitehead's
philosophical vision provides a language that serves as a
hermeneutical bridge by which historians of religions can interpret
the teachings and practices of religious Ways other than their own
without falsification, and by which theologians can appropriate
history-of-religions research as a means of helping Christians
advance in their own faith journeys. The purpose of the journey of
faith is what Whitehead called "creative transformation." The
contemporary theological tradition that has most systematically and
coherently followed Whitehead's lead in its reflection on
non-Christian Ways is process theology, which is perhaps the only
liberal or progressive theological movement now active in the
twenty-first century.
Buddhist/Christian dialogue has rarely touched on its interaction
with science, yet its importance has immense implications.
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science offers a fresh and
exciting view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the
three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural
sciences. Ingram's comprehensive yet accessible scholarship is
uniquely solid in both religion and science, and has the gift of
making complex theories understandable. Providing these three
different perspectives will be useful for anyone interested in the
relationship between religion and science.
Buddhist/Christian dialogue has rarely touched on its interaction
with science, yet its importance has immense implications.
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science offers a fresh and
exciting view on the ideas, themes, and people engaged in the
three-way dialogue between Christianity, Buddhism and the natural
sciences. Ingram's comprehensive yet accessible scholarship is
uniquely solid in both religion and science, and has the gift of
making complex theories understandable. Providing these three
different perspectives will be useful for anyone interested in the
relationship between religion and science.
While process philosophers and theologians have written numerous
essays on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, few have sought to expand
the current Buddhist-Christian dialogue into a trilogue by bringing
the natural sciences into the discussion as a third partner. This
was the topic of Paul O. Ingram's previous book, Buddhist-Christian
Dialogue in an Age of Science. The thesis of the present work is
that Buddhist-Christian dialogue in all three of its
forms-conceptual, social engagement, and interior-are
interdependent processes of creative transformation. Ingram
appropriates the categories of Whitehead's process metaphysics as a
means of clarifying how dialogue is now mutually and creatively
transforming both Buddhism and Christianity. (James Clarke & Co
2011)
In Passing Over and Returning Paul O. Ingram describes his
particular dialogue with the world's religions, illustrated by his
experience of passing over into Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism and
Confucianism, Judaism, and Islam, and by his return to his home as
a Lutheran Christian. While religious diversity is not new, neither
are the questions posed by religious diversity. What is new is that
more and more people are actively engaged with the world's
religions because more and more people are willing to be informed
by insights found in religious traditions other than their own.
This is particularly true among progressive Christians. But
openness does not necessarily mean rejecting one's own tradition,
even though persons sometimes convert to another tradition or
combine their original religious identity with the identity of
another tradition. Whether one returns to the home of one's own
faith tradition after passing over, or assumes a dual religious
identity, or converts to another tradition, all persons engaged in
interreligious dialogue undergo processes of creative
transformation. "This book actualizes what others have pointed
toward abstractly. . . . Its commitment to Luther becomes its
commitment to the truth that is found beyond Luther, beyond
Christianity, and especially in the other great religious
traditions. It does not speak abstractly of openness to other
traditions, but concretely of what one learns when one crosses over
to view reality from specific traditions. And it richly actualizes
the return to the Lutheran confession. May this become a model for
Christian theologies of the future." --John B. Cobb Jr., Professor
Emeritus, Claremont School of Theology "Paul Ingram is in fine form
once again. Bold yet nuanced, Ingram grounds his theological
reflections directly in theory and sacred text, but the indirect
influence of his own passionate journey is also unmistakably
present, making this a compelling, challenging, and ultimately
rewarding read." --Mark Unno, Head of Religious Studies Department,
University of Oregon Paul O. Ingram is Professor Emeritus of
History of Religions at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma,
Washington. He is he author of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an
Age of Science (2008), The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue
(Cascade Books, 2009), and Theological Reflections at the
Boundaries (Cascade Books, 2012).
Description: The interdependence of boundary questions and the
experience of cognitive dissonance reveal that knowledge in all
fields of inquiry is always incomplete and tentative. The issues
are particularly acute for Christian theological reflection. Ingram
illustrates the importance of boundary questions and cognitive
dissonance as a means of creatively transforming contemporary
Christian theological reflection through dialogue with the natural
sciences and the world's religions, particularly Buddhism, filtered
through the lenses of Whiteheadian process philosophy.
Endorsements: ""In a religiously plural world, theologians have
been struggling to recognize this pluralism as they do their
theological work. It happens less often that historians of religion
articulate their theology out of their work and their findings. In
this book, directly, clearly, and boldly, Paul Ingram does so,
sometimes breaking new ground in the process."" -John B. Cobb Jr
Professor Emeritus Claremont School of Theology ""Paul Ingram is
one of relatively few Christian systematic theologians to
synthesize reflections from his work in interreligious dialogue
(especially the Buddhist-Christian exchange) and from his study of
the ongoing exchange between philosophically oriented natural
scientists and scientifically minded Christian
philosophers/theologians. The present book represents the latest
stage in his thinking on these matters. As Ingram himself comments,
the experience of cognitive dissonance in comparing and contrasting
quite different points of view on foundational issues may be often
quite unsettling, but it seems to be the only way to keep growing
intellectually, morally, and spiritually."" -Joseph A. Bracken, SJ
Emeritus Professor of Theology Xavier University ""In Theological
Reflections at the Boundaries, Paul Ingram challenges his readers
to ask of themselves, 'Who do you say that I am?' in relation to
the questions of Christian identity in a global society of
religious pluralism, in a world increasingly defined by science and
technology, and in a deep manner in terms of what it really means
to be a human being. Most of all, though, he does this by asking
himself this question, and by so doing, shares his journey and
points the way."" -Mark Unno Associate Professor of East Asian
Religions University of Oregon About the Contributor(s): Paul O.
Ingram is Professor Emeritus of Religion at Pacific Lutheran
University in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of Wrestling
with God (Cascade Books, 2006) and The Process of
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue (Cascade Books, 2009).
Description: While process philosophers and theologians have
written numerous essays on Buddhist-Christian dialogue, few have
sought to expand the current Buddhist-Christian dialogue into a
""trilogue"" by bringing the natural sciences into the discussion
as a third partner. This was the topic of Paul O. Ingram's previous
book, Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science. The thesis
of the present work is that Buddhist-Christian dialogue in all
three of its forms--conceptual, social engagement, and
interior--are interdependent processes of creative transformation.
Ingram appropriates the categories of Whitehead's process
metaphysics as a means of clarifying how dialogue is now mutually
and creatively transforming both Buddhism and Christianity.
Endorsements: ""The Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue is many
things: Reflections on the historical process of Buddhist-Christian
dialogue, the author's own intellectual process of evolving
dialogue, and the vision of dialogue informed by a Whiteheadian
view of process. The multifaceted complexity and richness of the
work, however, issues from Paul Ingram's wholehearted engagement
with dialogue, not just as a scholar, but as a person. In plumbing
the very depths of his own faith, he has been inexorably impelled
to examine his life within the larger scope of human and cosmic
diversity, to reach beyond any sort of dogmatically predefined
boundaries. He is a scholar of Japanese Pure Land thought, East
Asian Buddhism, and religion and science, but it is here in The
Process of Buddhist-Christian Dialogue that he truly reveals the
deep hues of his kaleidoscopic lifework."" --Mark Unno, University
of Oregon ""Ingram offers an insightful, well-structured, and
panoramic view of the field of Buddhist-Christian studies, mapping
out the conceptual, socially-engaged, and interior dimensions of
the dialogue that continue to enrich and expand the horizons of
both traditions."" --Ruben L. F. Habito, Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University About the Contributor(s):
Paul O. Ingram is Professor of Religion Emeritus at Pacific
Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. He is the author of
Buddhist-Christian Dialogue in an Age of Science, Wrestling with
God, and Wrestling with the Ox: A Theology of Religious Experience.
Description: This collection of five essays is both a dialogical
engagement with and critical assessment of Nancy R. Howell's book
Constructing a Relational Cosmology. The collection includes three
essays written from a Whiteheadian process perspective (by Marit A.
Trelstad, Kathlyn A. Breazeale, and Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki), one
from the perspective of narrative theology (Lisa Stenmark), and one
from the Soto Zen Buddhist perspective (Stephanie Kaza). Howell,
responding as a Whiteheadian feminist philosopher of religion,
takes the critiques and suggestions of her dialogical partners with
the utmost seriousness as her foundation for suggesting new
directions for ecofeminist thought--an example of what
Whiteheadians call ""the process of creative transformation.""
About the Contributor(s): Paul O. Ingram, the editor, is Professor
of Religion Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma,
Washington). He is the author of Wrestling with God, Wrestling with
the Ox, The Modern Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, and The Dharma of
Faith.
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