Francis X Clooney

Broschiertes Buch

Comparative Theology

Deep Learning Across Religious Borders

Beschreibung

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. 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. 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.

Autor

Francis X. Clooney, 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 Hindu God, Christian God (2001), Divine Mother, Blessed Mother (2005), Jesuit Postmodern: Scholarship, Vocation, and Identity in the 21st Century (2006), Beyond Compare: St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God (2008), and The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus (2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781405179744
• ISBN-10: 1405179740
• Artikelnr.: 28094890

Rezensionen

"This marvelous book should stand as an invitation tomany. I very much hope that it is taken up." (Harvard
Theological Review, 1 April 2012)

"In this context, Comparative Theology is a timelypublication." (Teaching Theology, 2012)"There is much to admire in this short but insightful book - notleast the background that Clooney sketches: the genealogy of theterm 'comparative theology' and the summary of variouscontemporary comparativists, from Raimon Pannikkar, Robert Nevilleand Keith Ward to a whole school of younger scholars which isbeginning to emerge, especially in the United States." (The Way,1April 2011)

"It's a fascinating book, all the same. I warmly recommend it ."(Theology, 1 March

2011)

"Comparative Theology will be of interest to people looking fora method for interfaith dialogue that affirms the value of one'stheological commitments and could serve well as a textbook forcourses exploring interfaith theological discourse." (Journal ofEcumenical Studies, 1 January 2011)

"But as this volume suggests, our interreligious milieu providesa new impetus not just for learning about our neighbors' faiths butlearning from them. Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is a most trustworthyguide." (The National Catholic Weekly, September 2010)

"Clooney's book thus provides an extremely needful, as well asaccessible, contribution to the furthering of this developingdiscipline, and as such it is a very valuable piece ofscholarship." (American Theological Inquiry, July 2010)"It succeeds in a magisterial way: the book provides thefirst history of the discipline, exposits the approaches of itsmajor players, discusses issues of methodology, sets directions forthe development of the discipline, and carefully notes itsstrengths and limitations ... This book will be thestandard introduction for comparative theologians. And it is apersuasive answer to anyone who thinks that comparison muddiesconfessional truth."
-Robert Cummings Neville, Boston University

"This will be a definitive text which introduces and exemplifiesthe discipline of comparative theology, as an important part oftheology and the study of religions. It's an original and scholarlybook, and deserves to be widely read."
-Keith Ward, University of Oxford