Students and scholars alike have long been fascinated by the similarities and differences between the traditions founded by the Shakyamun, called the Buddha, and Jesus, called Christ. The Buddha and the Christ introduces readers to Mahayana perspectives and explores the dynamics of discipleship past and present of both Christian and Buddhist traditions.
Christianity was born within Judaism. How it emerged from it and finally, and irrevocably, broke with it is a long and complex story. Terrance Callan sees the process as hinging on two crucial points viz. 'first, the church's decision that Gentile Christians need not keep the Jewish law; and second, the eventual decline of Jewish membership within the church'. This is a small book packed full o…
This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr's contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true t…