A Buddhist-Christian Logic of the Heart: It invokes the need of a spiritual-mystical revival in our AI-driven world

[John Raymaker]

"Raymaker intends to bring Nishida-influenced Buddhist ideas into dialogue with Christianity and the West." -- Amos Yong, Bethel College Review, January-February 2003

From the Author

In this book, I explore some early Mahayana traditions of Buddhism (Madhyamika and Yogacara) as these are later expressed in East Asian forms such as Pure Land and Zen. From this study, I extrapolate the meaning of mysticism as developed in these traditions and interpreted in the Kyoto School of Philosophy. This approach allows me to develop Lonergan's cognitional theory in the light of Buddhism. The book appeals to the influential Japanese philosopher NISHIDA--comparing his philosophy of "nothingness" with the interpretions of Western philosophy by Aquinas and Kant and Saussure's published work.     John