Abstract
It is now common knowledge that parallels exist between Shinran Shonin's teaching of salvation by faith through Amida Buddha's other-power (Japanese, taniki) alone and Martin Luther's interpretation of the Pauline Augustinian conception of salvation by faith through God's grace alone. Karl Barth, in Church Dogmatics, once acknowledged the parallels between Luther's and Shinran's conceptions of faith, even as he rejected their theological importance (1936, 342). More sympathetic scholarly attention has been given to analyzing the exact nature of these parallels, since Barth first tried to explain away Shinran's teachings of faith and other-power as expressions of religion created by Buddhists to earn their salvation, as opposed to Christian faith as our response to God originating in God's grace revealed through Christ (Ingram, 1971).
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