Clooney / Stosch How to Do Comparative Theology

1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8232-7843-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions

How To Do Comparative Theology clarifies method in comparative theology, dialogical learning, showcasing scholars doing theological work interreligiously. The group is diverse by age and stage of career, gender, religions studied, location in the United States and Europe. Yet the essays manifest coherence in intent, commitment to learning from the other, and confidence regarding the benefits of the questions and challenges arising.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clooney, Francis X.

Stosch, Klaus von

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Francis X. Clooney, SJ, and Klaus von Stosch

I Doing Comparative Theology — As Theology
1.Catherine Cornille: The Problem of Choice in Comparative Theology
2.Klaus von Stosch: Reflecting on Approaches to Jesus in the Qur’an from the Perspective of Comparative Theology
3.Aaron Langenfeld: The Moment of Truth: Comparative and Dogmatic Theology
4.Hugh Nicholson: Rhetorics of Theological One-Upsmanship in Christianity and Buddhism: Athanasius’ Polemic against the Arians and Vasubandhu’s Refutation of Pudgalavada Buddhism
5.Axel Marc Takács: “An Interpreter and Not a Judge:” Insights into a Christian-Islamic Comparative Theology
6.Glenn Willis: Necessary Imperfection: Notes for the Cultured Despisers of Comparison

II Comparative Theology Is What Comparative Theology Does
7.Michelle Voss-Roberts: Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison: Thinking-Feeling with Non-Dual Saivism
8.Marianne Moyaert: Comparative Theology after the Shoah: Risks, pivots and opportunities of Comparing traditions
9.Muna Tatari: Justice and Mercy: Using Comparative Insights for Developing Kalam
10.Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Difficult Remainders: Seeking Comparative Theology’s Really Difficult Other
11.Shoshana Razel: Sagi Nahor—Enough Light: Dialectic Tension Between Luminescent Resonance and Blind Assumption in Comparative Theology

III Recognizing Comparative Theology by Its Fruits
12.Emma O’Donnell: Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in Comparative Theology
13.Brad Bannon: Incarnational Speech: Comparative Theology as Learning to Hear and Preach
14.Michael Barnes, SJ: Living Interreligiously: On the ‘pastoral style’ of Comparative Theology
15.Stephanie Corigliano: Theologizing for the Yoga Community? Commitment and Hybridity in Comparative Theology

Über Autor(innen)

Clooney Francis X.:
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and professor of comparative theology at Harvard Divinity School. He directed the Center for the Study of World Religions from 2010 to 2017.Stosch Klaus von:
Klaus von Stosch is Professor of Systematic Theology and head of the Centre of Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany.Francis X. Clooney, S.J. (Edited By)
Francis X. Clooney, SJ, is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School.

Klaus von Stosch (Edited By)
Klaus von Stosch is Professor of Systematic Theology and head of the Centre of Comparative Theology and Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn, Germany.