Ultimate Realities

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
Tu Weiming
Preface
Robert Cummings Neville


Acknowledgments


Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman


1. Ultimate Reality: Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn with James Miller


2. Ultimate Realities: Judaism: God as a Many-sided Ultimate Reality in Traditional Judaism
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky


3. Ultimate Reality in Ancient Christianity: Christ and Redemption
Paula Fredriksen


4. Ultimate Reality: Islam
S. Nomanul Haq


5. Vedanta Desika's Isvarapariccheda (“Definition of the Lord”) and the Hindu Argument about Ultimate Reality
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson


6. Cooking the Last Fruit of Nihilism: Buddhist Approaches to Ultimate Reality
Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil


7. Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman


8. On Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman


9. How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others
Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville


10. The Idea of Categories in Historical Comparative Perspective
John H. Berthrong


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


Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading


Contributors


Index of Names


Index of Subjects