[Buddha-l] Re: Moment of individuation

[jkirk]

Following up my previous:
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Heroes/Leonardo_Boff.html
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/7538 this review covers both Kueng
and Schillebeeckx.
http://jbe.gold.ac.uk/5/fenn982.html Review of book on engaged Buddhism in
JBE.
"...The introductory essay concludes by addressing the question as to
whether engaged Buddhism constitutes 'heritage' or 'heresy'...". Here we see
that social enagement increasingly accepted by Buddhists can be compared to
the rejection of the same by
the Vatican under Pope JPII.
There are so many sites on Curran that I leave these up to readers to
explore.
Joanna
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> Amen to that. It had been rumored about before the new Pope selection that
> the cardinals would come up with an old guy who would not be Pope for too
> long, a transition figure, perhaps. Seems plausible. So She may not have
too
> much work to do....unless he beats the odds.
> I often wonder if declarations of heresy and gag rules on clerics are as
> common among Buddhist monastics as they became since former Cardinal
> Ratzinger (now Pope Benedictus 16) became ruler of the Holy Office, or the
> grand inquisitor. He together with Pope JPII, silenced such eminent
> theologians as Hans Kueng, Edward Schillebeeckx, Charles Curran of the US,
> and a liberation theologian Leonardo Boff of Brazil.
> Joanna
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> > All told, I'm afraid I still see no intellectually honest alternative to
> > relativism, even though Pope Benedict XVI clearly states that relativism
> > is a dictatorship that forces us all to be hedonistic and egotistical
> > and leads us into the allegedly false view that there are legitimate
> > religions aside from Roman Catholicism. Alas, I can only find his claims
> > a sad bit of silliness. One can only hope that if there is a God, she
> > will protect us from the new pope.
> >
> > --
> > Richard Hayes
> > Department of Philosophy
> > University of New Mexico
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