Jan Van Bragt

Interreligious Affinities

Encounters with the Kyoto School and the Religions of Japan

For over forty-five years Jan Van Bragt labored as one of the pioneers of interreligious dialogue in Japan, leaving behind him an impressive body of written work, most of it having to do with the intellectual and spiritual encounter between Christianity and Japanese Buddhism. Interreligious Affinities is a selection of his writings focusing on the bridges Van Bragt strived to cast between established traditions, between philosophy and theology, between doctrine and religious reality, and between the mystical and the everyday. Again and again Van Bragt insists that the lived, existential needs of religious believers need to be understood not only in terms of the particular heritage of symbols and teachings to which they are affiliated but also in terms of the wider needs of the human community.

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