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Comparative Theology


Comparative Theology

Deep Learning Across Religious Borders
1. Aufl.

von: Francis X. Clooney

26,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 22.09.2011
ISBN/EAN: 9781444318968
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 208

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Drawing upon the author’s three decades of work in comparative theology, this is a pertinent and comprehensive introduction to the field, which offers a clear guide to the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study. <ul> <li>The author has three decades of experience of work in the field of comparative theology and is ideally placed to write this book</li> <li>Today’s increasing religious diversity makes this a pertinent and timely publication</li> <li>Unique in the depth of its introduction and explanation of the discipline of ‘comparative theology’</li> <li>Provides examples of how comparative theology works in the new global context of human religiosity</li> <li>Draws on examples specific to Hindu-Christian studies to show how it is possible to understand more deeply the wider diversity around us.</li> <li>Clearly guides the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study</li> </ul>
<p>Preface and Acknowledgments xi</p> <p><b>Part I Starting Points 1</b></p> <p><b>1 Religious Diversity and Comparative Theology 3</b></p> <p>Diversity around Us 4</p> <p>Diversity within Us 6</p> <p>Comparative Theology as a Response to Twenty-first-Century Religious Diversity 8</p> <p>Distinguishing Comparative Theology from Related Disciplines 9</p> <p>Comparative Theology and the Academic Study of Religions 12</p> <p>Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue 13</p> <p>Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions 14</p> <p>Comparative Theology Autobiographically Grounded 16</p> <p>On the Limits of This Book 19</p> <p>Looking Ahead 22</p> <p><b>2 In Generations Past: Some Ancestors to Today’s Comparative Theology 24</b></p> <p>Comparative Theology and the Long History of Christian Interreligious Reflection 24</p> <p>Western Jesuit Scholars in India 27</p> <p>Comparative Theology as a Discipline (1699–) 30</p> <p>A Moderate Criticism of Missionary Scholarship and the Older Comparative Theology 35</p> <p>At the End of the Era 37</p> <p><b>3 Comparative Theology Today 41</b></p> <p><i> David Tracy 42</i></p> <p><i> Keith Ward 43</i></p> <p><i> Robert C. Neville 45</i></p> <p> A Note on <i>Raimon Panikkar</i> 47</p> <p><i> James Fredericks 49</i></p> <p> New Directions 50</p> <p> From Theory (Back) to Practice 52</p> <p><b>Part II Doing Theology Comparatively 55</b></p> <p><b>4 From Theory to Practice 57</b></p> <p> The Practice of (Comparative) Religious Reading 57</p> <p> Intelligent Reading 59</p> <p> Commentary as a Religious Practice 60</p> <p> Interreligious Commentary 63</p> <p> Leaving Room for Other Readers and Their Readings 66</p> <p> Necessarily Elite Choices 67</p> <p><b>5 Getting Particular: A Christian Studies Hinduism 69</b></p> <p> The Importance of Focus 69</p> <p> (Self)Identifying This Particular Comparative Theologian 70</p> <p> Making a Map, Marking the Field:</p> <p> Hinduism in Brief 70</p> <p> Getting Particular: Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Srivaisnavism 74</p> <p> Appreciating Similarities 75</p> <p> Theistic Hinduism as a Useful and Comfortable Focus 77</p> <p> Theology as a Hindu Discipline 78</p> <p> Comparative Theology in Hinduism and Other Traditions 80</p> <p>My Comparative Theology, Indebted to Hindu Theologies 83</p> <p><b>6 “Learning to See”: Comparative Practice and the Widening of Theological Vision 87</b></p> <p> Plenary Address at the Catholic Theology Society of America, 2003 88</p> <p> Near a Goddess 88</p> <p> Devi’s Beauty, Devi’s Pleasure 90</p> <p> Rediscovering Mary 93</p> <p> Mary and Her Son Jesus, through Muslim Eyes 96</p> <p> Sojourner Truth’s Liberating God 99</p> <p> All in Christ, but Still All 103</p> <p> Vocation 105</p> <p> After “Learning to See” 106</p> <p><b>Part III The Fruits of Comparison 109</b></p> <p><b>7 Theology After Comparison 111</b></p> <p> Comparative Theology and the Larger Work of Theology 111</p> <p> The Multiple Responsibilities of the Comparative Theologian 113</p> <p> Some Theological Presuppositions Implicit in Comparative Theology 114</p> <p> Comparative Theological Learning, in Particular 117</p> <p> The Imago Dei and Our Destiny in Bliss 118</p> <p> What “Narayana” Might Mean for the Christian 121</p> <p> Encountering Goddesses 123</p> <p> Comparative Theology and the Intensification of Devotion 125</p> <p> Theology on a Smaller Scale 127</p> <p><b>8 “God for Us” 128</b></p> <p>“God for Us”: An Essay 128</p> <p> A Verse, a Clue 129</p> <p> What Hindus Thought about the Verse 130</p> <p> Living the Verse 132</p> <p>The Verse and Its Wider Context 133</p> <p> An Aside on How to See God and on How God Wills to Be Seen 135</p> <p> Noticing One’s First Citizenship: Reflection on Ignatian Insight and My Home Citizenship 139</p> <p> What Ignatius Had to Say 140</p> <p> Some Contemporary Views of the Intensification and Emptying of the Imagination in the Spiritual Exercises 143</p> <p> Multiple Religious Belonging, Human but Also Divine 146</p> <p> “God for Us” as Comparative Theology 151</p> <p><b>9 Comparative Writer, Comparative Reader 154</b></p> <p> The Comparative Theologian Transformed 155</p> <p> The Comparative Theologian as Marginal Person 157</p> <p> The Comparative Theologian’s New Community 160</p> <p> Tasks and Opportunities for the Reader 162</p> <p> Beyond This Book 164</p> <p>Notes 166</p> <p>Select Bibliography 172</p> <p>Index 177</p>
<p>“This marvelous book should stand as an invitation to many. I very much hope that it is taken up.”  (<i>Harvard<br /> Theological Review</i>, 1 April 2012)</p> <p>“In this context, Comparative Theology is a timely publication.”  (<i>Teaching Theology</i>, 2012)</p> "There is much to admire in this short but insightful book - not least the background that Clooney sketches: the genealogy of the term ‘comparative theology' and the summary of various contemporary comparativists, from Raimon Pannikkar, Robert Neville and Keith Ward to a whole school of younger scholars which is beginning to emerge, especially in the United States." (The Way,1 April 2011) <p>"It's a fascinating book, all the same. I warmly recommend it ." (Theology, 1 March 2011)</p> <p>"Comparative Theology will be of interest to people looking for a method for interfaith dialogue that affirms the value of one's theological commitments and could serve well as a textbook for courses exploring interfaith theological discourse." (Journal of Ecumenical Studies, 1 January 2011)</p> <p>"But as this volume suggests, our interreligious milieu provides a new impetus not just for learning about our neighbors' faiths but learning from them. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is a most trustworthy guide." (<i>The National Catholic Weekly,</i> September 2010)</p> <p>"Clooney's book thus provides an extremely needful, as well as accessible, contribution to the furthering of this developing discipline, and as such it is a very valuable piece of scholarship." (<i>American Theological Inquiry</i>, July 2010)</p>
<b>Francis X. Clooney</b>, S.J., is Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University. His primary areas of scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India, and the developing field of comparative theology. He was the first president of the International Society for Hindu-Christian Studies, and, from 1998 to 2004, was coordinator for interreligious dialogue for the Jesuits of the United States. Professor Clooney is the author of numerous articles and books, including <i>Hindu God, Christian God</i> (2001), <i>Divine Mother, Blessed Mother</i> (2005), <i>Jesuit</i> <i>Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century</i> (2006), <i>Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God</i> (2008), and <i>The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus</i> (2008).
This is a highly engaging introduction to comparative theology by one of the world’s most respected scholars in this fast-growing field. The book describes the development of the area and shows the reader both how to understand and undertake comparative theology. <p>Drawing on the author’s three decades of work in the area of comparative theology, the book discusses the history of the field and the distinctive features of its current practice. While giving a clear sense of the purposes and methods of the discipline, Clooney draws upon his extensive study and experience to illustrate how one makes the necessary choices about which traditions to study, and how to focus manageably the comparative study any of us endeavors to undertake. Several chapters offer full-length examples of comparative theology in practice. The book also considers the issues of truth and the long-term effects of the comparative theological project on living religions in their faith, truth, and practice, on the study of religions, and on the comparativist.</p> <p>This multifaceted introduction to the field enables the reader to engage in comparative study, demonstrating that comparative theology can be initiated from within any religious tradition and even in accord with a personally defined spiritual path.</p>
“It succeeds in a magisterial way: the book provides the first history of the discipline, exposits the approaches of its major players, discusses issues of methodology, sets directions for the development of the discipline, and carefully notes its strengths and limitations … This book will be the standard introduction for comparative theologians. And it is a persuasive answer to anyone who thinks that comparison muddies confessional truth.”<br /> <i>–Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University</i> <p>"This will be a definitive text which introduces and exemplifies the discipline of comparative theology, as an important part of theology and the study of religions. It's an original and scholarly book, and deserves to be widely read."<br /> <i>–Keith Ward, University of Oxford</i></p>

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