Comparative Theology

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Clooney, Francis Xavier 저자(글)

Wiley-Blackwell · 2010년 03월 29일

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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.

The author has three decades of experience of work in the field of comparative theology and is ideally placed to write this bookToday's increasing religious diversity makes this a pertinent and timely publicationUnique in the depth of its introduction and explanation of the discipline of 'comparative theology'Provides examples of how comparative theology works in the new global context of human religiosityDraws on examples specific to Hindu-Christian studies to show how it is possible to understand more deeply the wider diversity around us.Clearly guides the reader, enabling them to engage in comparative study

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저자(글) Clooney, Francis Xavier

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• Preface and Acknowledgments	p. xi
  Starting Points	p. 1
  Religious Diversity and Comparative Theology	p. 3
  Diversity around Us	p. 4
  Diversity within Us	p. 6
  Comparative Theology as a Response to Twenty-first-Century Religious Diversity	p. 8
  Distinguishing Comparative Theology from Related Disciplines	p. 9
  Comparative Theology and the Academic Study of Religions	p. 12
  Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue	p. 13
  Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions	p. 14
  Comparative Theology Autobiographically Grounded	p. 16
  On the Limits of This Book	p. 19
  Looking Ahead	p. 22
  In Generations Past: Some Ancestors to Today's Comparative Theology	p. 24
  Comparative Theology and the Long History of Christian Interreligious Reflection	p. 24
  Western Jesuit Scholars in India	p. 27
  Comparative Theology as a Discipline (1699-)	p. 30
  A Moderate Criticism of Missionary Scholarship and the Older Comparative Theology	p. 35
  At the End of the Era	p. 37
  Comparative Theology Today	p. 41
  David Tracy	p. 42
  Keith Ward	p. 43
  Robert C. Neville	p. 45
  A Note on Raimon Panikkar	p. 47
  James Fredericks	p. 49
  New Directions	p. 50
  From Theory (Back) to Practice	p. 52
  Doing Theology Comparatively	p. 55
  From Theory to Practice	p. 57
  The Practice of (Comparative) Religious Reading	p. 57
  Intelligent Reading	p. 59
  Commentary as a Religious Practice	p. 60
  Interreligious Commentary	p. 63
  Leaving Room for Other Readers and Their Readings	p. 66
  Necessarily Elite Choices	p. 67
  Getting Particular: A Christian Studies Hinduism	p. 69
  The Importance of Focus	p. 69
  (Self)Identifying This Particular Comparative Theologian	p. 70
  Making a Map, Marking the Field: Hinduism in Brief	p. 70
  Getting Particular: Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Srivaisnavism	p. 74
  Appreciating Similarities	p. 75
  Theistic Hinduism as a Useful and Comfortable Focus	p. 77
  Theology as a Hindu Discipline	p. 78
  Comparative Theology in Hinduism and Other Traditions	p. 80
  My Comparative Theology, Indebted to Hindu Theologies	p. 83
  "Learning to See": Comparative Practice and the Widening of Theological Vision	p. 87
  Plenary Address at the Catholic Theology Society of America, 2003	p. 88
  Near a Goddess	p. 88
  Devi's Beauty, Devi's Pleasure	p. 90
  Rediscovering Mary	p. 93
  Mary and Her Son Jesus, through Muslim Eyes	p. 96
  Sojourner Truth's Liberating God	p. 99
  All in Christ, but Still All	p. 103
  Vocation	p. 105
  After "Learning to See"	p. 106
  The Fruits of Comparison	p. 109
  Theology After Comparison	p. 111
  Comparative Theology and the Larger Work of Theology	p. 111
  The Multiple Responsibilities of the Comparative Theologian	p. 113
  Some Theological Presuppositions Implicit in Comparative Theology	p. 114
  Comparative Theological Learning, in Particular	p. 117
  The Imago Dei and Our Destiny in Bliss	p. 118
  What "Narayana" Might Mean for the Christian	p. 121
  Encountering Goddesses	p. 123
  Comparative Theology and the Intensification of Devotion	p. 125
  Theology on a Smaller Scale	p. 127
  "God for Us"	p. 128
  "God for Us": An Essay	p. 128
  A Verse, a Clue	p. 129
  What Hindus Thought about the Verse	p. 130
  Living the Verse	p. 132
  The Verse and its Wider Context	p. 133
  An Aside on How to See God and on How God Wills to Be Seen	p. 135
  Noticing One's First Citizenship: Reflection on Ignatian Insight and My Home Citizenship	p. 139
  What Ignatius Had to Say	p. 140
  Some Contemporary Views of the Intensification and Emptying of the Imagination in the Spiritual Exercises	p. 143
  Multiple Religious Belonging, Human but Also Divine	p. 146
  "God for Us" as Comparative Theology	p. 151
  Comparative Writer, Comparative Reader	p. 154
  The Comparative Theologian Transformed	p. 155
  The Comparative Theologian as Marginal Person	p. 157
  The Comparative Theologian's New Community	p. 160
  Tasks and Opportunities for the Reader	p. 162
  Beyond This Book	p. 164
  Notes	p. 166
  Select Bibliography	p. 172
  Index	p. 177
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ISBN	9781405179744 ( 1405179740 )
발행(출시)일자	2010년 03월 29일
쪽수	208쪽
크기	137 * 213 * 13 mm / 259 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어