Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism, and Christianity
By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective wo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Series/Journal: | Columbia Series in Science and Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Meditation - Christianity |
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| Summary: | By establishing a dialogue in which the meditative practices of Buddhism and Christianity speak to the theories of modern philosophy and science, B. Alan Wallace reveals the theoretical similarities underlying these disparate disciplines and their unified approach to making sense of the objective world. Wallace begins by exploring the relationship between Christian and Buddhist meditative practices. He outlines a sequence of meditations the reader can undertake, showing that, though Buddhism and Christianity differ in their belief systems, their methods of cognitive inquiry provide similar ins |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record |
| ISBN: | 0231147309 |