{"id":1688,"date":"2010-04-28T11:03:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2010-04-28T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:03:51","slug":"what-christians-can-learn-from-buddhism-rethinking-salvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2010\/04\/what-christians-can-learn-from-buddhism-rethinking-salvation\/","title":{"rendered":"What Christians Can Learn From Buddhism: Rethinking Salvation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2127\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/christians-and-buddhism_ld\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"246,400\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Christians and Buddhism_ld\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld-184x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld.jpg\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/281\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christians and Buddhism_ld\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/files\/2010\/04\/Christians-and-Buddhism_ld.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/>by <strong>Kristin Johnston Largen \u201990<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one\u2019s own tradition one must inhabit another\u2019s deeply. Largen, assistant professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., takes the reader on a pilgrimage into Buddhism in order to ultimately address what Christians mean by salvation. The book explores comparative theology and the meanings of salvation, or soteriology.<\/p>\n<p>ISBN-13: 978-0800663285. Published by Fortress Press; 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kristin Johnston Largen \u201990 It is a truism in the study of religion that to understand one\u2019s own tradition one must inhabit another\u2019s deeply. Largen, assistant professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pa., takes the reader on a pilgrimage into Buddhism in order to ultimately address what Christians mean by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-april-2010","tag-on-the-bookshelf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}