Darrell J. Fasching
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World Religions Today
12 editions
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2001
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Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach
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8 editions
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2001
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Religion and Globalization: World Religions in Historical Perspective
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2007
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Religions of Asia Today
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4 editions
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2008
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The Thought of Jacques Ellul: A Systematic Exposition
2 editions
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1981
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The Coming of the Millennium: Good News for the Whole Human Race
3 editions
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1996
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Narrative Theology After Auschwitz: From Alienation to Ethics
3 editions
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1992
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No One Left Behind: Is Universal Salvation Biblical?
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2011
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The Ethical Challenge of Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Apocalypse or Utopia?
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1993
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Jewish People in Christian Preaching (Symposium Series)
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1985
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“Every act, says Thich Nhat Hanh, should be a ritual of mindfulness awakening us to our true identity of interbeing. “True mind is our real self, is the Buddha: the pure one-ness which cannot be cut up by the illusory divisions of separate selves, created by concepts and language” (Naht Hanh, 1975, p. 42).”
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
“Thich Nhat Hanh shares this Mahayana philosophy of non-dualism. This is clearly demonstrated in one of his most famous poems, “Call Me By My True Names:”1 Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow– even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I am still arriving, in order to laugh and to cry, in order to fear and to hope, the rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of every living creature. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird, that swoops down to swallow the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond, and I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving. I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands, and I am the man who has to pay his “debt of blood” to my people, dying slowly in a forced-labor camp. My joy is like spring, so warm that it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast that it fills up all four oceans. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one. Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and open the door of my heart, the door of compassion. (Nhat Hanh, [1993] 1999, pp. 72–3) We”
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
“The depth psychologist C.G. Jung, himself deeply influenced by Augustine, divided life into two halves (see Figure 6.2, Jung’s Stages of Life). He argued that we live the first half of life on the sheer energy of being youthful biological organisms. The tasks of this stage of life are dominated by the biological need for the reproduction of the species and the social need to reproduce the collective wisdom of one’s culture through education. Then, somewhere around the middle of life,it finally hits you one day that half your life is over, that your youth is past and that time is slipping away from you. In your youth it seemed as if you had all the time in the world and as if you could do anything. Now you come to face the fact that time is running out and there are some things you will never accomplish. Mid-life is the point at which we reach the apex of the biological curve of life, that turning point where youth gives way to the inevitable processes of aging, sickness, and death. This is the life cycle of all living things, plant, animal or human.Inthe case of humans, however, we are conscious of our mortality, an awareness that sends us on a quest, seeking for a personal answer to the problem of death as a loss of self as the second half of our life looms before us. As”
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
― Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach to Global Ethics
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