{"product_id":"moral-struggle-and-religious-ethics-9781444336825","title":"Moral Struggle and Religious Ethics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMoral Struggle and Religious Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comparative discussion of the challenges of living a moral religious life. This is illustrated with a study of two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa, who influenced the development of moral thinking in Christianity and Buddhism respectively.  \u003cul type=\"disc\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an important and original contribution to the comparative study and practice of religious ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eMoves away from a comparison of theories by discussing the shared human problem of moral weakness\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers an fresh approach with a comparison of the understanding of the problem of moral weakness between the two key thinkers, Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWritten by a highly respected academic in the dynamic and fast-growing field of comparative religious ethics\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Questions and Contexts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 Person as Classic: Questions, Limits, and Religious Motivations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePersons, Limits, and Religious Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassics: questions and limits in thought and action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReligious ethics: interpreting limited persons.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe model of person as classic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassic Persons: Ideas, Practices, and Questions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure as mediator of classic ideas and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa as mediator of classic ideas and practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral struggle as classic question.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Context: The Symbolic Religious Cosmologies of Roman Catholicism and Therava-da Buddhism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Struggle in Greek, Roman, and Christian Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeakness of will and volition in classical philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLaw, love, and wisdom in Christian scriptures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLove, sin, and self-examination in Patristic theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNatural law and rational appetite in medieval theology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral Struggle in Indian and Buddhist Philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversal \u003ci\u003edharma\u003c\/i\u003e and individual \u003ci\u003edharma\u003c\/i\u003e in the Vedas and epics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelf and world in the \u003ci\u003eUpanis.ads\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMoral perfection in the Buddhist \u003ci\u003eNika-yas\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Symbolic Religious Cosmology of the Trinity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTrinitarian exemplarity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Symbolic Religious Cosmology of Buddhist Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConstitution of persons: aggregates, characteristics, and ultimate realities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe nature of reality and the structure of causality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntention, volition, and personal continuity in Buddhist Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbhidhamma and Trinity as Comparative Contexts and Categories.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Context: Material Simplicity in Christian and Buddhist Life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHistorical Introduction to Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePoverty and avarice in Bonaventure's Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSimplicity and sponsorship in Buddhaghosa's Ceylon.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial sufficiency in institutional life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVoluntary poverty in individual life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Material Simplicity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWealth, giving, and the sacrifice of purification.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the twofold nature of materiality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaterial Simplicity and the Problem of Moral Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Ideas, Practices, and Persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa: From Ideas to Practices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure's Continuity with Medieval Debates on the Nature of Will.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa's Manual of Practical Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on the Connection Between Sacrament and Virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on the Connection Between Morality and Meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Bonaventure and Buddhaghosa: From Practices to Persons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Prayer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Meditation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure on Moral Exemplars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBuddhaghosa on Moral Exemplars.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparing Persons in the Process of Struggle: Two Notions of Person as Classic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 Personal Horizons: Moral Struggle, Religious Humility, and the Possibility of a Comparative Theological Ethics.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBonaventure and Buddhaghosa on Personal Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eComparative Theology and Comparative Ethics: A Religious-Interpretive Work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Methodological Struggles of Comparative Persons: Five Roads of Return.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStruggles for a Comparative Horizon: Religious Humility and the Problem of Conversion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix: Some Common Buddhist Lists, Their Relation, and Their Significance in Abhidhamma.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408390562135,"sku":"9781444336825","price":80.06,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/moral-struggle-and-religious-ethics-9781444336825","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}