{"product_id":"how-to-do-comparative-theology-paperback-softback-9780823278411","title":"How to Do Comparative Theology (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823278411","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow to Do Comparative Theology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eFrancis X. Clooney (Edited by), Klaus von Stosch (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823278411\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 12 December 2017\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cm, 0.566 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor a generation and more, the contribution of Christian theology to interreligious understanding has been a subject of debate. Some think of theological perspectives are of themselves inherently too narrow to support interreligious learning, and argue for an approach that is neutral or, on a more popular level, grounded simply open-minded direct experience. In response, comparative theology argues that theology, as faith seeking understanding, offers a vital perspective and a way of advancing interreligious dialogue, aided rather than hindered by commitments; theological perspectives can both complement and step beyond the study of religions by methods detached and merely neutral. Thus comparative theology has been successful in persuading many that interreligious learning from one faith perspective to another is both possible and worthwhile, and so the work of comparative theology has become more recognized and established globally. With this success there has come to the fore new challenges regarding method: How does one do comparative theological work in a way that is theologically grounded, genuinely open to learning from the other, sophisticated in pursuing comparisons, and fruitful on both the academic and practical levels? \u003cbr\u003e How To Do Comparative Theology therefore contributes to the maturation of method in the field of comparative theological studies, learning across religious borders, by bringing together essays drawing on different Christian traditions of learning, Judaism and Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism, the wisdom of senior scholars, and also insights from a younger generation of scholars who have studied theology and religion in new ways, and are more attuned to the language of the \"spiritual but not religious.\" The essays in this volume show great diversity in method, and also—over and again and from many angles—coherence in intent, a commitment to one learning from the other, and a confidence that one's home tradition benefits from fair and unhampered learning from other and very different spiritual and religious traditions. It therefore shows the diversity and coherence of comparative theology as an emerging discipline today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Francis X. Clooney, SJ, and Klaus von Stosch\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eI Doing Comparative Theology — As Theology\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1.Catherine Cornille: The Problem of Choice in Comparative Theology\u003cbr\u003e 2.Klaus von Stosch: Reflecting on Approaches to Jesus in the Qur'an from the Perspective of Comparative Theology\u003cbr\u003e 3.Aaron Langenfeld: The Moment of Truth: Comparative and Dogmatic Theology\u003cbr\u003e 4.Hugh Nicholson: Rhetorics of Theological One-Upsmanship in Christianity and Buddhism: Athanasius' Polemic against the Arians and Vasubandhu's Refutation of Pudgalavāda Buddhism\u003cbr\u003e 5.Axel Marc Takács: \"An Interpreter and Not a Judge:\" Insights into a Christian-Islamic Comparative Theology\u003cbr\u003e 6.Glenn Willis: Necessary Imperfection: Notes for the Cultured Despisers of Comparison\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eII Comparative Theology Is What Comparative Theology Does\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7.Michelle Voss-Roberts: Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison: Thinking-Feeling with Non-Dual Saivism\u003cbr\u003e 8.Marianne Moyaert: Comparative Theology after the Shoah: Risks, pivots and opportunities of Comparing traditions\u003cbr\u003e 9.Muna Tatari: Justice and Mercy: Using Comparative Insights for Developing Kalam\u003cbr\u003e 10.Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Difficult Remainders: Seeking Comparative Theology's Really Difficult Other\u003cbr\u003e 11.Shoshana Razel: Sagi Nahor—Enough Light: Dialectic Tension Between Luminescent Resonance and Blind Assumption in Comparative Theology \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIII Recognizing Comparative Theology by Its Fruits\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 12.Emma O'Donnell: Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in Comparative Theology\u003cbr\u003e 13.Brad Bannon: Incarnational Speech: Comparative Theology as Learning to Hear and Preach\u003cbr\u003e 14.Michael Barnes, SJ: Living Interreligiously: On the 'pastoral style' of Comparative Theology\u003cbr\u003e 15.Stephanie Corigliano: Theologizing for the Yoga Community? 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