Dear Marshall, Aside for Boff asking the questions, do you know where this dialog appeared, and who wrote it. Is there more to it, other than the brief dialog? Was it part of something larger, were there others (round table?; could be it was merely a circular table)---considering Boff's embarrassment in the first place, and further seeing it as an irrefutable statement/argument. I say this since one interesting aspect about Christian practice (as say, closer to home--a toddy-tapping practice) is the desire and ardour to live it, not only/just be able to talk about it and that to at varying degrees of reasoning.
What happened in that dialog is Being 101(A Basic course in Living), and it strikes me as bizarre that Boff, or any one else' sense of Christianity would not a priori include the words the Dalai Lama spelt out. Hence my earlier questions. I presume the idea of religion in this case was to Seek a Way to live, and as the DL put its includes whether one is religious or not. Both embrace, many ways of being and seeing being--Agnosticism, Atheism, Non-Theism, Apatheism, Culturalism, Humanism, etc, Also, almost forgot an important one--Rationalism. There is also more to the word freedom than appears in the phrase "Theology of Freedom." Ignore my questions, if you cannot track source, or if will take to much time to do so. venantius j pinto
