TH 662 - Buddhism and Christianity

(3.00 cr.)

A general survey of the encounter between Christianity and Buddhism that examines the metaphysical and theological conflicts between them. Topics include God, the soul, metaphysics, causality, epistemology, and ethics. The course takes special care to dismantle many of the fantasies that contemporary Europeans and Americans have about Buddhism, and it concludes with a discussion of the political uses and abuses of reincarnation in Tibetan Buddhism.