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The Buddha and Religious Diversity by J. Abraham Velez de Cea (review)

The Buddha and Religious Diversity by J. Abraham Velez de Cea (review) Book Reviews THE BUDDHA AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY. By J. Abraham Velez de Cea. London: Routledge, 2013. 250 pp. To date, theology of religions has been dominated by Christian theologians, despite the field's great need to hear the views of insiders from other religions about how they deal with religious diversity. Books on religious diversity or theology of religion that focus primarily on Buddhist topics or are written from a Buddhist point of view are relatively few and far between. Thus, any new offering in this genre is welcome. Nevertheless, I found this book puzzling in many ways. On the one hand, it is very good at doing what it sets out to do, which is to fit the Buddha of Pali Nikayas into the familiar schema of Christian theology of religions--exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism. On the other hand, I am by no means convinced that this strategy is the most useful or helpful way to think about Buddhism and religious diversity. There are two major components to this book. The first is a very refined further development of the "exclusivist/inclusivist/pluralist" model of possible ways of understanding religious diversity and a vigorous defense of that model as adequate for http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawai'I Press

The Buddha and Religious Diversity by J. Abraham Velez de Cea (review)

Gross, Rita M.
Buddhist-Christian Studies , Volume 34 (1) – Feb 3, 2014
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Book Reviews THE BUDDHA AND RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY. By J. Abraham Velez de Cea. London: Routledge, 2013. 250 pp. To date, theology of religions has been dominated by Christian theologians, despite the field's great need to hear the views of insiders from other religions about how they deal with religious diversity. Books on religious diversity or theology of religion that focus primarily on Buddhist topics or are written from a Buddhist point of view are relatively few and far between. Thus, any new offering in this genre is welcome. Nevertheless, I found this book puzzling in many ways. On the one hand, it is very good at doing what it sets out to do, which is to fit the Buddha of Pali Nikayas into the familiar schema of Christian theology of religions--exclusivism, inclusivism, and pluralism. On the other hand, I am by no means convinced that this strategy is the most useful or helpful way to think about Buddhism and religious diversity. There are two major components to this book. The first is a very refined further development of the "exclusivist/inclusivist/pluralist" model of possible ways of understanding religious diversity and a vigorous defense of that model as adequate for

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