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7 unusual facts about Masao Abe


Masao Abe

He has been perennially involved with: the East-West Philosophers' Conference at the University of Hawaii; and the International Buddhist-Christian Theological Encounter (the "Abe-Cobb group") which, along with Professor John B. Cobb, Jr., Abe directed.

Herein Abe's essay "Kenotic God and Dynamic Sunyata" appears, which is addressed by one Jewish (Eugene Borowitz) and six Christian (Thomas J. J. Altizer, John B. Cobb, Jr., Catherine Keller, Jürgen Moltmann, Schubert M. Ogden, and David Tracy) theologians.

Two Jewish responses by Richard Rubenstein and Sandra B. Lubarsky are followed by four Christian, i.e., by Heinrich Ott, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Hans Waldenfels, and Christopher Ives (Part II).

Steven Heine

Editor, Zen and the Modern World: A Third Sequel to Zen and Western Thought, by Masao Abe (University of Hawaii Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8248-2665-9)

Furthermore, he is an innovative interpreter of Zen in both a traditional and modern context and has translated and edited works by Masao Abe, the eminent modern Japanese thinker.

Editor, Zen and Comparative Studies: Part Two of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought, by Masao Abe (University of Hawaii Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8248-1832-6)

Editor, Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought, by Masao Abe (University of Hawaii Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-8248-1752-7)



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