Seminar in Other Religions

Hans Kűng et al.  Christianity and World Religions.  Paths to Dialogue,  Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1993

OUTLINE

A.                 Islam and Christianity

1.         Muhammad and the Qur’an: Prophecy and Revelation

2.                  Sunnites and Shi’ites: The State, Law, and Religion

3.                  The Image of God and Islamic Mysticism, the Image of Man and Society

4.                  Islam and the Other Religions: Jesus in the Qur’an

B.                 Hinduism and Christianity

1.                  What is Hinduism?  On the History of a Religious Tradition

2.                  World and Deity: Conceptions of the Hindus

3.                  Man and Salvation in Hindu Religions

4.                  Religious Practice: Rite, Myth, and Meditation

C.                 Buddhism and Christianity

1.                  The Historical Buddha: His Teaching as a Way to Redemption

2.                  The Buddhist Community and Its Earlier History

3.                  From Theravada to Pure Land: Forms of Buddhist Thought and Life

4.                  Buddhism and Society:  Buddhism in Our Time