Research Catalog

Title

A Baptist preacher's Buddhist teacher : how my interfaith journey with Daisaku Ikeda made me a better Christian / Lawrence Edward Carter Sr.

Author

Carter, Lawrence Edward, 1941-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Middleway Press, 2018.

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Details

Description

xiv, 294 pages; 22 cm

Summary

In this inspiring, soul-stirring memoir, Lawrence E. Carter Sr., founding dean of the Martin Luther King Jr. International Chapel, shares his remarkable quest to experience King's "beloved community" and his surprising discovery in mid-life that King's dream was being realized by the Japanese Buddhist philosopher and tireless peace worker Daisaku Ikeda. Coming of age on the cusp of the American Civil Rights Movement, Carter was personally mentored by Martin Luther King Jr. and followed in his footsteps, first to get an advanced degree in theology at Boston University and then to teach and train a new generation of activists and ministers at King's alma mater, Morehouse College.

Subject

• Carter, Lawrence Edward, 1941-
• Ikeda, Daisaku
• Christianity and other religions > Buddhism
• Buddhism > Relations > Christianity
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious
• RELIGION / Comparative Religion
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Interfaith relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The call to cosmopolitan discourse -- My path -- Meeting my mentor -- Turning poison into medicine -- Morehouse mission -- World house -- Human revolution -- Buddhist teacher -- The power of moral cosmopolitan dialogue -- Education for cosmic citizenship and friendship -- Value creation -- Global commonwealth of realized citizens -- An inside job -- Faith to heal the world.

ISBN

• 9780977924592
• 0977924599
• 9781946635068 (epub) (canceled/invalid)
• 9781946635075 (mobi) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2018012798

OCLC

• on1035216286
• SCSB-13549433

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library