Nobuhara, Tokiyuki. “Toward a Global Hermeneutic of Justification in Process Perspective: Luther and Shinran Comparatively Considered.”  Buddhist-Christian Studies 12 (1992): 103-20.

Abstract

"Today, theology is no longer an exclusively Western enterprise, one which Eastern peoples, whether Christian or not, have merely and lopsidedly to learn in order to construe their religious perceptions of the world in intelligible and coherent manners. Contemporary theology moves toward a world, or global, theology inasmuch as Eastern and Western peoples alike share one and the same world on Earth, although they do so in their distinctively peculiar and unique ways, religiously and culturally speaking...The purpose of this article is to demonstrate from a process perspective that there can be a "global" hermeneutic of justification as this attends to the oft-argued parallelism between Luther's doctrine of justification and Shinran's Shin Buddhist faith in the grace of Amida Buddha."