Reddit reviews Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

If I can, I'd like to suggest a book. It's called Going Home by Vietnamese Monk Thich Nhat Hanh. It does a fantastic job of going over the parallels (and differences) between the two. This will definitely benefit you more than I could hope to do in a comment section on reddit.

The book is pretty popular so you may be able to find it at you library or order off of Amazon for $10.

I think it may be helpful to have a series of discussions about why you are looking to learn more about Buddhism. For many Christians non-Abrahamic religions are very difficult to understand (source: me, an agnostic raised by an Evangelical Born-Again father and Catholic mother). Part of the process for you and your girlfriend could be learning about Buddhism together, and understanding how it is both different and similar to Christianity.

As someone who comes from a Christian background myself, as a teenager I found Thich Nhat Hanh's works Living Buddha, Living Christ and Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers as effective ways of comparing and contrasting various concepts and values of both the religions. As long as you and your partner are having an ongoing open discussion about your spiritual journey I think you'll be OK.

EDIT: I'll also put forward that if part of your reason for looking outside of Christianity is that you're "not much of a social guy", you should be aware that community (Parsa or Gana) is very important to Buddhists as well.

I highly suggest reading this.

Jesus and Buddha: The Parallel Sayings

Without Buddha I Could Not Be A Christian

Thich Nhat Hanh wrote two books on the topic:

Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers

Living Budha, Living Christ

Try reading this book: https://www.amazon.com/Going-Home-Jesus-Buddha-Brothers/dp/1573228303

Maybe recommend one of these books...

Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

Going Home: Jesus and Buddha as Brothers by Thich Nhat Hanh

Without Buddha I Could Not Be a Christian by Paul F. Knitter

That argument is laughable. It begs the question of whether or not the bible is true as a whole, when it could easily have been partially exaggerations by some authors on a guy voicing his views in allegory and partially complete hooey. I was arguing that the truth of the teachings doesn't hinge on the truth of resurrection.

My view is fairly consistent with this.

Exactly. Perhaps I can remind others here of one of several books by Thich Nhat Hanh on the similarities between Christianity and Buddhism:

http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/1573228303