Wrestling with the Ox: A Theology of Religious Experience, by Paul Ingram

For many years, Paul Ingram has offered distinguished leadership to the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies. In addition, he is the editor and author of several widely admired scholarly works. He now has written a book that appeals to a "pluralist" model of religious diversity as the proper basis for interreligious dialogue. Based in part on my own theological commitments and my participation in interreligious dialogues with Buddhists, I disagree with Ingram on the basic presuppositions of his book. The criticism of Ingram's work that follows should not lose sight of this point. I will try to be as clear as possible about these disagreements on fundamentals.