Offers essays and dialogues by well-known Buddhist and Christian scholars on topics that were of primary interest to Frederick J. Streng, in whose honour the volume was created. Topics include interreligious dialogue, ultimate reality, nature and ecology, social and political issues of liberation, and ultimate transformation or liberation.

Part One Interreligious Dialogue; Chapter One Buddhist Interreligious Dialogue: To Build a Global Community, David W. Chappell; Chapter Two Response to David Chappell, Winston L. King; Chapter Three Interreligious Dialogue, Winston L. King; Chapter Four Response to Winston King, David Chappell; Part Two Ultimate Reality; Chapter Five 'In the Beginning ... God': A Christian's View of Ultimate Reality, Bonnie Thurston; Chapter Six Response to Bonnie Thurston's '"In the Beginning ... God": A Christian's View of Ultimate Reality', Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Seven The Concept of the Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought: In Memory of Frederick Streng, Malcolm David Eckel; Chapter Eight Response to: 'The Concept of The Ultimate in Madhyamaka Thought', Bonnie Thurston; Part Three Nature and Ecology; Chapter Nine The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self, Alan Sponberg; Chapter Ten Response to Alan Sponberg's 'The Buddhist Conception of an Ecological Self', Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Eleven Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order, Paula M. Cooey; Chapter Twelve Creation, Redemption, and the Realization of the Material Order: A Buddhist Response, Alan Sponberg; Part Four Social and Political Issues of Liberation; Chapter Thirteen Buddhism and Social Engagement, Sallie B. King; Chapter Fourteen Some Questions About the World, John P. Keenan; Chapter Fifteen The Mind of Wisdom and Justice in the Letter of James, John P. Keenan; Chapter Sixteen Response to John Keenan, Sallie B. King; Part Five Ultimate Transformation or Liberation; Chapter Seventeen Under the Bodhi Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Thomas P. Kasulis; Chapter Eighteen Nailed to a Tree: An Idealized Paradigm of Buddhist Transformation and Liberation, Ruben L. F. Habito; Chapter Nineteen The Resurrection of the Dead, and Life Everlasting: From a Futuristic to a Realized Christianity, Ruben L.F. Habito; Chapter Twenty The Momentous and the Momentary, Thomas P. Kasulis; Part Six Epilogues; Chapter Twenty-One A Buddhist Epilogue, Taitetsu Unno; Chapter Twenty-Two A Christian Epilogue, John B. CobbJr.;