Abstract
Moderated by Susan Stabile, J.D., Professor of Law / Faculty Fellow for Spiritual Life, University of St. Thomas
Peter Feldmeier, Ph.D.
Thomas and Margaret Murray & James J. Bacik Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies, University of Toledo
Peter Feldmeier holds the Thomas and Margaret Murray & James J. Bacik Endowed Chair in Catholic Studies at the University Toledo, where he specializes in Christian spirituality, comparative theology, Buddhism, and Buddhist-Christian dialogue. Formerly a professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas, where he was named the Aquinas Scholars Professor of the Year in 2010, Dr. Feldmeier earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and a Ph.D. in Christian spirituality at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. Among his many publications are Christianity Looks East: Comparing the Spiritualties of John of the Cross and Buddhaghosa(2006), The Developing Christian: Spiritual Growth through the Life Cycle (2007), which earned a 2008 Catholic Press Association Award, Encounters in Faith: Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (2011), The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada (2011), co-authored with Leo D. Lefebure, which won the 2011 Frederick J. Streng Book Award for Excellence in Buddhist-Christian Studies, and The God Conflict: Faith in the Faith of the New Atheism (2014).
Mark Unno, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of East Asian Religions, University of Oregon
Mark Unno is associate professor and religious studies advisor in the department of philosophy at the University of Oregon. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University and is a specialist is medieval Japanese Buddhism. He also researches and has published in, among other areas, modern Japanese religious thought, Buddhism and psychotherapy, comparative ethics, comparative religion, and comparative theology, and he has served as an executive board member of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. He is the author of Shingon Refractions: Myōe and the Mantra of Light (2004), a study and translation of the medieval Japanese ritual practice of the Mantra of Light, and more than a dozen scholarly essays in English and Japanese including, “Questions in the Making: A Review Essay of Zen Buddhist Ethics in the Context of Buddhist and Comparative Ethics” in the Journal of Religious Ethics (1999) and “Buddhism, Christianity, and Physics: An Epistemological Turn” inBoundaries of Knowledge in Buddhism, Christianity, and Science, edited by Paul Numrich (2008). He is also the editor of Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures (2006) and a co-editor of Deep Listening, Deep Hearing: Buddhism and Psychotherapies (forthcoming).