[PDF] The Wisdom of James: Parallels with Mahayana Buddhism
·•●- John P. Keenan ·•●-
| #1841658 in Books | 2005-03-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | .60 x5.72 x8.36l,.84 | File Name: 080914168X | 288 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Wisdom Book|By Sergey Shyndriayev|I purchased this book “The Wisdom of James: Parallels with Mahayana Buddhism” by John P. Keenan after studying Letter of James in our Bible study group. Letter of James is very controversial book in Bible. Martin Luther even said about it as “epistle of straw, for it has nothing of the nature of the Gospel about it.” He|About the Author|John P. Keenan, who holds a PhD in Buddhist studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is professor of religion at Middlebury College in Vermont, as well as an Episcopal priest of the diocese of Vermont.
In this fascinating book John Keenan offers a classical commentary on the New Testament Letter of James, section by section, informed by a thorough study of contemporary Jamesian scholarship. His approach is unique in that it employs Mahayana Buddhist philosophy as the interpretive lens to focus on this early Christian text.
The author argues that the first chapter of James' letter presents wisdom as non-discriminative, in a manner very similar to Mahayana Buddhist ...
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