Ultimate realities / edited by Robert Cummings Neville ; foreword by Tu Weiming.

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001], ©2001.

xxvi, 363 pages ; 24 cm.

Ultimate reality: Chinese religion / Livia Kohn with James Miller -- Ultimate realities: Judaism: God as a many-sided ultimate reality in traditional Judaism / Anthony J. Saldarini -- Ultimate reality in ancient Christianity: Christ and redemption / Paula Fredriksen -- Ultimate reality: Islam / S. Nomanul Haq -- Vedānta Deśika's Īśvarapariccheda ("Definition of the Lord") and the Hindu argument about ultimate reality / Francis X. Clooney with Hugh Nicholson -- Cooking the last fruit of nihilism: Buddhist approaches to ultimate reality / Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil -- Comparative conclusions about ultimate realities / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- On comparing religious ideas / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- How our approach to comparison relates to others / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville -- The idea of categories in historical comparative perspective / John H. Berthrong -- Appendix A: On the process of the project during the second year / Wesley J. Wildman -- Appendix B: Suggestions for further reading.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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