The Human Condition

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World , all published by SUNY Press.

Foreword
Peter L. Berger

Preface
Robert Cummings Neville

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman

1. On Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman

2. Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn

3. Beginningless Ignorance: A Buddhist View of the Human Condition
Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil

4. To Be Heard and Done, But Never Quite Seen: The Human Condition According to the Vivekacudamani
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson

5. Religious Dimensions of the Human Condition in Judaism: Wrestling with God in an Imperfect World
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky

6. Embodiment and Redemption: The Human Condition in Ancient Christianity
Paula Fredriksen with Tina Shepardson

7. The Human Condition in Islam: Shari'a and Obligation
S. Nomanul Haq

8. Comparative Hypotheses: Cosmological Categories for the Human Condition
Robert Cummings Neville with Wesley J. Wildman

9. Comparative Hypotheses: Personal and Social Categories for the Human Condition
Robert Cummings Neville

Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the First Year
Wesley J. Wildman

Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects