Foreword
Tu Weiming
Preface
Robert Cummings Neville
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
1. Ultimate Reality: Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn with James Miller
2. Ultimate Realities: Judaism: God as a Many-sided Ultimate Reality in Traditional Judaism
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky
3. Ultimate Reality in Ancient Christianity: Christ and Redemption
Paula Fredriksen
4. Ultimate Reality: Islam
S. Nomanul Haq
5. Vedanta Desika's Isvarapariccheda (Definition of the Lord) and the Hindu Argument about Ultimate Reality
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson
6. Cooking the Last Fruit of Nihilism: Buddhist Approaches to Ultimate Reality
Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil
7. Comparative Conclusions about Ultimate Realities
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
8. On Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
9. How Our Approach to Comparison Relates to Others
Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville
10. The Idea of Categories in Historical Comparative Perspective
John H. Berthrong
Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Second Year
Wesley J. Wildman
Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects