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John P. Keenan
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“for no viewpoint has a vantage point (an advantage) from which it can experience all the traditions or gain true insight into the doctrine and practice of other peoples’ faiths. No single perspective is ever capable of rendering judgment about other religions. A Mahāyāna philosophy of religions is a no-philosophy. It is a philosophy that empties philosophy.4”
― Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: with a little help from Nagarjuna
― Grounding Our Faith in a Pluralist World: with a little help from Nagarjuna
“In a similar vein, Keenan’s approach to reading Christian scripture and understanding Christian doctrine seeks to place these in the context of the spiritual experience out of which scriptural and doctrinal expressions emerge: “a mystic realm of meaning in which meaning is constituted not by thinking and judging, but by the immediacy of contact, of being touched. Indeed, this base experience is the source from which all theologizing springs.”9”
― The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahāyāna Meditations
― The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahāyāna Meditations
“These expressions, Keenan points out, are linked to “ontotheological interpretations” of the nature of reality, relying as they do on an understanding of self-enclosed (“substantial”) being as the basic unit of all things that exist. Seen from a Buddhist perspective, this is a deluded view that prevents us from seeing the intimate interconnectedness of all things in the universe—a key insight into the nature of reality that stems from the awakening experience of the Buddha. Keenan turns to Mahāyāna Buddhist thought in seeking a different set of conceptual tools for articulating Christian doctrine that might more suitably convey the experiential meaning underlying its often convoluted expressions and that may resonate more with contemporary modes of thinking.10”
― The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahāyāna Meditations
― The Emptied Christ of Philippians: Mahāyāna Meditations
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