Although the parable of the Good Samaritan has the elements characteristic of an inter religious interchange, that is, interaction among Jews and Samaritans, it has almost never been read that way. Commentators have not picked up on the meaning of the parable from the point of view of inter religious dialogue. It should be read that way, as one reading among several. In our day and age of religiously plural cultures, an inter religious reading of the parable has much to offer us.
Buddhism in modern culture is taking on three forms that cut across the traditional distinctions among Theravada, Mahayana, and Vajrayana. Global Buddhism, Enlightenment Buddhism, and People's Buddhism present the missiologist and missionary new challenges, among them learning how both to spread the good news of the gospel and to cooperate with the best in these new forms of Buddhism.
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