SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT GOD
Buddhist Enlightenment and Christian Salvation
By Harold A. Netland & Keith E. Yandell. Paternoster. 230 pages. £14.99
ISBN 978-1-84227-642-6
This excellent text is written by two American evangelical scholars who are expert in both philosophy and Buddhist thought. It is an exercise in inter-religious apologetics, that is, they not only point out the similarities and major differences between Christianity and Buddhism, but also press hard the philosophical problems inherent in Buddhist thought.
The reader will be taken on a journey back to the roots of Buddhism in the Hindu worldview, on through the Buddha’s life and teaching and then a trip through its developments as it moved East to countries like Japan and Tibet, and finally westward to American beat-Zen, changing and diversifying in the process.
