The Emptying God A Buddhist-Jewish-christian Conversation

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KENOTIC GOD AND DYNAMIC SUNYATA kenotic god and dynamic sunyata 3 masaoabe Introduction 3 Interfaith Dialogue and Antireligious Ideologies 3 Scientism and Religion 4 Nihilism in the Nietzschean Sense and Religion 6 Kenotic God 9 The Kenosis of Christ 9 The Humiliation and Exaltation of Christ 12 The Kenosis of God 14 God: Each and Every Thing 17 Moltmann`s Notion of the Crucified God 19 Appreciation and Criticism of Moltmann 23 Dynamic Sunyata 27 Sunyata as the Buddhist Ultimate 27 The Positive Meanings of Sunyata 29 The Role of Human Reason in Buddhism 34 Free Will in Buddhism 36 The Buddhist Notion of Karma 38 The Problem of Evil in Buddhism 41 Suchness, Jinen, and Evil 45 Natural Evil, Human Evil, and Religion 46 A Buddhist View of the Holocaust 50 Free Will and the Ultimate Criterion of Value Judgment in Sunyata 55 Time and History of Buddhism 59 RESPONSES TO MASAO ABE buddhist emptiness and the crucifixion of god 69 thomas J. J. altizer dynamic sunyata and the god whose glory fills the universe 79 eugenes. borowitz on the deepening of buddhism 91 johnb. cobb.jr. scoop up the water and the moon Is in your hands: on feminist theology and dynamic self-emptying 102 ca therine keller god Is unselfish love 116 jurgen moltmann faith in god and realization of emptiness 125 schubert M. ogden kenosis, sunyata, and trinity: A dialogue with masao abe 135 david tracy A REJOINDER A rejoinder 157 masao abe The Context for Buddhist-Christian Dialogue 158 Kenotic Christ and Kenotic God 160 Trinity and Kenosis 162 Trinity and Sunyata 167 God and the Meaning of Buddhism for Christianity 169 Sunyata and Ethics 173 Christian Contributions to the Development of Buddhism 177 The Problem of the Holocaust: The Relationship between Ethics and Religion 180 The Problem of the Holocaust: Its Uniqueness and Solution 184 Time and History 189 Feminist Critique and a Buddhist Response 195 MASAO ABE BIBLIOGRAPHY