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Focuses on the proposition "that theology is at its best when it is political, and politics is saved from a secular ideology when it listens to a theological critique." The editor draws parallels between the Canaanite period of Israelite history and the "Liberal Possessive Individualism" that he sees dominating Canadian ideology.

The essays which are brought together here were originally delivered during the first colloquium of the Karl Earth Society of North America. It met at Victoria University in Toronto on October 26 to 28, 1972, and was entitled: "The Theology of Karl Barth".

While recent manuscript finds shed new light on gnostic thought, the writings of the heresiologists are still indispensable. In this volume, Valllee analyses the arguments of each of the three heresiologists in order to discern the central concerns of each.

C'est avec des commentaire élogiquex de plusieurs critiques que La langue de Ya'udi du Professeur Dion a été remis à cette Corporation pour être publié. Ces seuls jugements favorables justifient le plaisir que nous prenons à rendre cet ouvrage accessible aux savants. De plus, il contitue, à part notre journal SR - Studies in Religion / Science Religieuses, la première publication française d'importance de cette Corporation, fait dont nous sommes également fiers.Lors de sa fondation, la Corporation pour la publication des études académiques en religion au Canada avait pour but de publier "un périodique ainsi que d'autres travaux qui répondent aux besoins des savants dont la langue de travail au Canada est soit le français soit l'anglais et qui font de la recherche dans le domaine des sciences religieuses." Ce volume marque une autre publication trimestrielle SR mentionnée ci-dessus, ensuite Le guide des sciences religieuses au Canada, ensuite le premier numéro d'une série de SR Supplements, et maintenant ce volume qui inaugure une nouvelle série, Editions SR.Nous espérons qu'en publiant cet ouvrage du Professeur Dion, nous contribuons à l'avancement des études scientifiques en religion dans ce pays et ailleurs, et que, par là, nous manifestons notre désir d'aider les savants au Canada à publier leurs travaux.

Har Dayal's The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature published in 1931 was the first extensive study in English of the Bodhisattva doctrine. Dayal discussed the Bodhisattva doctrine as it was expounded in the Buddhist Sanskrit texts, and it remains a question whether anything more can be added to his excellent study. However, no other book on the doctrine has appeared in English subsequent to Dayal's study, and Buddhist scholarship, having expanded beyond the boundaries of the Sanskrit language, must now take into account information found not only in the Sanskrit language but also in other languages fundamental to Buddhist studies. In order to investigate what current research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese materials could contribute to the study of the Bodhisattva doctrine, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary planned a conference around the theme of the Bodhisattva. The papers presented in this volume were first read and discussed at the conference.

Early textual sources of the vast body of Dharmasastra literature of India on religion, law, and morality contain numerous statements that present or imply an undefined conception of punishment. This is a "first-ever" attempt to provide a definition of the conception and to recover its ideational infrastructure.

An edited version of the proceedings of the Symposium of Elders and Scholars held at the University of Alberta, September 1977, including seminars with the elders of various Native peoples and papers delivered by such eminent students of Native religions as Ake Hultkrantz, Joseph Epes Brown, Sam D. Gill, and Karl Luckert.

This study of the meaning and the experience of mysticism is a product of the author's personal interest in mysticism and his reflection, as a philosopher, on some of the philosophical questions raised by mysticism is a "a psychological process which occurs with varying degrees of intensity in everyone's life" and the observation that this process changes the experiencer, the author goes on to discuss such questions as "Can we define mysticism?" and "Can we describe mystical experiences?," "Is mysticism rational?," and "What is the meaning of mystical experience?"

The papers published in this volume were originally read and discussed at a three day seminar sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion/Societie Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses at Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, May 28th to 30th, 1976. This seminar served the important function of bringing together the majority of the Canadian scholars who specialize in Indian Philosophy and Religion. The topic, Language was chosen a year earlier so that advance study on a common theme could be undertaken by all who participated. Some thirty professors, as well as a few senior graduate students, engaged in the discussion. An additional and important feature of the seminar was that since it was held during the Learned Societies meetings, a number of Western scholars with an interest in language were able to listen in to the thinking of their Eastern colleagues. This provided the basis for some interesting and informed dialogue.

In September of 1976 a group of some fifty scholars and practising mystics gathered at the University of Calgary. The chief objective of the Conference was to ponder and assess the nature of mysticism in its Eastern, Western and North American Indian forms. The method the Conference followed was somewhat unusual in that it aimed at a dialogue between the practising mystics and the scholars. What this book presents to the reader is not the outcome of the dialogue, but the personal statements and papers from which the dialogue began. Of course there is a degree to which the dialogue is already present, in that the papers of the scholars were written with the statements of the mystics in hand. Among some of the philosophers present, a set of more formal comments on each others presentations was recorded and these have been included.

This book contains, almost without change in content or style, the Annie Kinkead Warfield Lectures delivered at Princeton Theological Seminary in February, 1974. The theme of the lectures has been well worked over by contemporary theologians from almost every conceivable angle of Christian thought. Yet the subject was chosen because of a) a life-long personal interest in it; b) a deep conviction about its primary significance for Christian understanding and life; c) the disquiet and challenge that lay in the fact that though many in our day have spoken on the subject none seems to say things I find it necessary to say in order to achieve wholeness in Christian thought and life.

Discusses the philosophical problem of Being in the school of the Middle Way, Mdhyamika Buddhism, and in the Tantric School of Mahyna Buddhism; surveys Hindu views of Buddhism and explores Buddhism's relationship with other Indian religious and philosophical traditions; and analyses developments in Buddhist thought in China.

This first volume on the "state-of-the-art" in religious studies in Canada offers a description and critique of the field in the colleges, universities, and secondary schools in Alberta.