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000757193 020__ $$a9780190455361$$q(electronic book)
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000757193 1001_ $$aNicholson, Hugh$$q(Hugh R.),$$eauthor.
000757193 24514 $$aThe spirit of contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism$$h[electronic resource] /$$cHugh Nicholson.
000757193 264_1 $$aNew York, NY :$$bOxford University Press,$$c2016.
000757193 264_4 $$c©2016
000757193 300__ $$a1 online resource (xxi, 318 pages)
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000757193 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000757193 5050_ $$aSocial identity and the development of doctrine -- Part 1. Christological maximalism. An external history of Christological development -- From Messiah to Logos -- From preexistent Word to consubstantial Son: the Arian controversy -- Part 2. Buddhist selflessness. Anatta in the Pali canon -- Anatmavada versus Pudalavada in Abhidharmic and postcanonical literature -- Theological creativity and doctrinal constraint.
000757193 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users.
000757193 520__ $$aThe cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has explained why these "theologically correct" doctrines have difficulty taking root in popular religious thought, it is largely silent on the question of how they developed in the first place. Hugh Nicholson aims to fill this gap by arguing that such doctrines can be understood as developing out of social identity processes.  He focuses on the historical development of the Christian doctrine of Consubstantiality, the claim that the Son is of the same substance as the Father, and the Buddhist doctrine of No-self, the claim that the personality is reducible to its impersonal physical and psychological constituents. Both doctrines are maximally counterintuitive, in the sense that they violate the default expectations that human beings spontaneously make about the basic categories of things in the world. Nicholson argues that that these doctrines were each the products of intra- and inter-religious rivalry, in which one faction tried to get the upper hand over its ingroup rivals by maximizing the contrast with the dominant outgroup. Thus the "pro-Nicene" theologians of the fourth century developed the concept of Consubstantiality in the context of an effort to maximize, against their "Arian" rivals, the contrast with Christianity's archetypal "other," Judaism. Similarly, the No-self doctrine stemmed from an effort to maximize, against the so-called Personalist schools of Buddhism, the contrast with Brahmanical Hinduism with its doctrine of an unchanging and eternal self. In this way, Nicholson shows how religious traditions, to the extent that their development is driven by social identity processes, can back themselves into doctrinal positions that they must then retrospectively justify. -- Provided by publisher.
000757193 588__ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 11, 2016).
000757193 650_0 $$aIdentification (Religion)
000757193 650_0 $$aIdentity (Psychology)$$xReligious aspects.
000757193 650_0 $$aChristianity.
000757193 650_0 $$aBuddhism.
000757193 650_0 $$aContradiction$$xMiscellanea.
000757193 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aNicholson, Hugh (Hugh R.)$$tSpirit of contradiction in Christianity and Buddhism.$$dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2016$$z9780190455347$$w(DLC)   2015021842
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