[Membroj] another Esperanto of theology?

[Ralph Dumain]

Nothing short of a new language of discourse­a 
kind of philosophical Esperanto­is
necessary if we aspire to this level of exchange. 
Ideally, this language (unlike
Esperanto) would not have been developed 
specifically for the sake of facilitating or
perpetuating the comparative discourse itself. 
That sort of language would be too
aritificial, provisional and functional to be 
ultimately meaningful. If, rather, the language
of discourse were an independent creation, one 
that each of the parties individually
simply happened upon in a sort of happy 
existential coincidence, the possibility for
discourse would be facilitated markedly by the 
relative neutrality of its terms. My project
will be to show that the languages of German 
idealism, phenomenology and religious
existentialism, all of which both Tanabe and 
Soloveitchik knew fluently, provides the
occasion for such a happy coincidence, making Soloveitchik and Tanabe ideal
candidates for participation in a study that 
might be the beginnings of a Jewish-
Buddhist inter-faith dialectic.

http://necessarydetours.com/files/4-INTRODUCTION.html


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Where does it end? The well of obscurantist drivel is apparently bottomless.



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   The Tao does not speak.
   The Tao does not blame.
   The Tao does not take sides.
   The Tao has no expectations.
   The Tao demands nothing of others.
   The Tao is not Jewish.

--  David M. Bader, Zen Judaism: For You, A Little Enlightenment  
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