Hugh Nicholson

Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A model of interreligious theology that seeks to reconcile the ideal of religious tolerance with an acknowledgement of the extent to which religious communities construct identity on the basis of religious differences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199772865
• ISBN-10: 019977286X
• Artikelnr.: 32727367

Autorenporträt

Hugh Nicholson is Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He has published on a wide range of topics in the study of theology and religion, including method in comparative theology, the relation between theology and the study of religion, and selected topics in classical Indian philosophy.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Part I: Theology and the Political
* 1. The Reunification of Theology and Comparison in the New
Comparative Theology
* 2. The Modern Quest to Depoliticize Theology
* 3. From Apologetics to Comparison: Towards a Dialectical Model of
Comparative Theology
* Part II: Mysticism East and West Revisited
* 4. Mysticism East and West as Christian Apologetic
* 5. God and the God beyond God in Eckhart and ÍaSkara
* 6. From Acosmism to Dialectic: ÍaSkara and Eckhart on the Ontological
Status of the Phenomenal World
* 7. Liberative Knowledge as ''Living without a Why''
* Conclusion