[Buddha-l] O Grady review of Unexpected Way

[Mikael Aktor]

Margaret wrote
 
> I would suggest that a good starting point is:
> O'Grady, Paul. 2003. 'From Lhasa to Rome: Williams's Unexpected Way'. Contemporary Buddhism 4.2: 159-67

Thank you. I liked his review although his critique is mostly about Williams' misrepresentation of Catholicism. He ends his review by this sarcastic remark: "the irony of this book is that precisely on the basis of its characterization of Catholic Christianity, it will tend to actually increase traffic in the opposite direction to Williams' own way."
 
Also he has a satisfying critique of Williams' notions of resurrection (and in general of ideas of "post-mortem existence" including Buddhist ones).
 
mikael
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Mikael Aktor, Fixed-term lecturer, PhD
Department of Philosophy, Education and Study of Religions
University of Southern Denmark