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Podcast: New Books in East Asian Studies
Episode: James Heisig, "Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons" (ChisokudÅ Publications, 2019)
Description: One of the trailblazers in the field of Japanese philosophy, James W. Heisig, delivered his five lectures in 2019 at Boston College as the Duffy Lectures in Global Christianity. These lectures were compiled into this book, Of Gods and Minds: In Search of a Theological Commons (Nagoya & Brussels: ChisokudŠPublications, 2019). In them the author begins from the assumption that if the Christian God is to have global significance, it will not merely be a matter of Christianity accepting cultural and religious diversity and retreating from its mission of converting the entire world to its own way of thinking about God. The conv...