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Ramanuja and Schleiermacher: Toward a Constructive Comparative Theology

by Jon Paul Sydnor
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781498255578
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pickwick Publications
  • Publisher Imprint: Pickwick Publications
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  • Pages: 238
  • Original Price: GBP 40.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 490 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Christian Theology / History and Christianity / History

Can the comparison of two theologians vastly separated in space and time help contemporary theologians to think better? This book argues that it can. Specifically, this book argues that the novel and burgeoning discipline of comparative theology is a powerful method for gaining critical insight into our inherited worldviews. More important, it argues that the critical insights gained through comparison can produce constructive theology or, in other words, revised and renewed worldviews. New comparisons produce new questions, and new questions produce new answers. In order to demonstrate the power of this process, the book compares two preeminent theologians, Sri Ramanuja of the Hindu tradition and Friedrich Schleiermacher of the Christian tradition. Each argues that God sustains the universe at every moment of its existence, but they work out the divine sustenance in very different ways. By comparing their description of God's continual preservation of the universe, this book asks original, unfamiliar questions of each. Then, it speculatively suggests possible answers to those questions, inviting Ramanuja and Schleiermacher to respond to the challenges raised. This method demonstrates the incisive power of comparative theology to generate critical tension, as well as the creative power of comparative theology to resolve that very tension.

Clooney, Francis X.: - Francis X. Clooney, SJ, is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at the Harvard Divinity School. Previously he taught
for many years at Boston College, and also taught at John Carroll University, the University of Oxford, and other universities. He is well known for his ability to connect Hindu and Christian spiritualities in a way that honors the wisdom and distinctiveness of both. His most recent book is 'Divine Mother', 'Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Blessed Virgin Mary'.

Sydnor, Jon Paul: - Jon Paul Sydnor has studied at the University of Virginia, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Boston College. He currently teaches world religions at Emmanuel College in Boston.

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