Charles S. Prebish, Damien Keown, Sallie B. King, Paul O. Ingram

Winner of the Society of Buddhist Christian Studies' annual "Fredercik J. Streng Book Award" for 2003

• Part One Interreligious Dialogue; Chapter One Buddhist Interreligious Dialogue: To Build a Global Community, David W. Chappell; Chapter Two Response to David Chappell, Winston L. King; Chapter Three Interreligious Dialogue, Winston L. King; Chapter Four Response to Winston King, David Chappell; Part Two Ultimate Reality; Chapter Five ‘In the Beginning … God’: A Christian’s View of Ultimate Reality, Bonnie Thurston; Chapter Six Response to Bonnie Thurston’s ‘“In the Beginning … God”: A Christian’s View of Ultimate Reality’, Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Seven The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought: In Memory of Frederick Streng, Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Eight Response to: ‘The Concept of The Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought’, Bonnie Thurston; Part Three Nature and Ecology; Chapter Nine The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self, Alan Sponberg; Chapter Ten Response to Alan Sponberg’s ‘The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self’, Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Eleven Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order, Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Twelve Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order: A Buddhist Response, Alan Sponberg; Part Four Social and Political Issues of Liberation; Chapter Thirteen Buddhism and Social Engagement, Sallie B. King; Chapter Fourteen Some Questions About the World, John P. Keenan; Chapter Fifteen The Mind of Wisdom and Justice in the Letter of James, John P. Keenan; Chapter Sixteen Response to John Keenan, Sallie B. King; Part Five Ultimate Transformation or Liberation; Chapter Seventeen Under the Bodhi Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Thomas P. Kasulis; Chapter Eighteen Nailed to a Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Ruben L. F. Habito; Chapter Nineteen The Resurrection of the Dead, and Life Everlasting: From a Futuristic to a Realized Christianity, Ruben L.F. Habito; Chapter Twenty The Momentous and the Momentary, Thomas P. K