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1: Comparative Theology Unit |
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
This panel presents three exercises in Buddhist-Christian Comparative Theology. The first is on the theme of humility and its relationship to liberation vis-à-vis certain Christian feminist strategies to reclaim humility as a gendered strategy. The second explores Kierkegaard’s truth as subjectivity vis-à-vis the Tibetan Buddhist claim of truth as non-duality through a comparative method based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory in cognitive linguistics. The third argues that Paul’s understanding of pneuma and pneumatic life is fittingly compared with Tibetan understandings of the “subtle body” and associated phenomena; parallels between the two helpfully transform our understanding of early Christianity.
Papers
- “I am but lowly”: A Comparative Look at Humility in the Hagiographies of Yeshé Tsogyal and Mechtild of Magdeburg
- A Tibetan Buddhist Perspective on Kierkegaard’s Truth and Existence
- Is There an Early Christian “Subtle Body”? Pauline Pneuma and Tibetan Parallels
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