Comparative Theology - Francis X Clooney

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Résumé :

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Part I Starting Points 1

1 Religious Diversity and Comparative Theology 3

Diversity around Us 4

Diversity within Us 6

Comparative Theology as a Response to Twenty-first-Century Religious Diversity 8

Distinguishing Comparative Theology from Related Disciplines 9

Comparative Theology and the Academic Study of Religions 12

Comparative Theology and Interreligious Dialogue 13

Comparative Theology and the Theology of Religions 14

Comparative Theology Autobiographically Grounded 16

On the Limits of This Book 19

Looking Ahead 22

2 In Generations Past: Some Ancestors to Today's Comparative Theology 24

Comparative Theology and the Long History of Christian Interreligious Reflection 24

Western Jesuit Scholars in India 27

Comparative Theology as a Discipline (1699-) 30

A Moderate Criticism of Missionary Scholarship and the Older Comparative Theology 35

At the End of the Era 37

3 Comparative Theology Today 41

?David Tracy 42

?Keith Ward 43

?Robert C. Neville 45

?A Note on Raimon Panikkar 47

?James Fredericks 49

?New Directions 50

?From Theory (Back) to Practice 52

Part II Doing Theology Comparatively 55

4 From Theory to Practice 57

?The Practice of (Comparative) Religious Reading 57

?Intelligent Reading 59

?Commentary as a Religious Practice 60

?Interreligious Commentary 63

?Leaving Room for Other Readers and Their Readings 66

?Necessarily Elite Choices 67

5 Getting Particular: A Christian Studies Hinduism 69

?The Importance of Focus 69

?(Self)Identifying This Particular Comparative Theologian 70

?Making a Map, Marking the Field:

?Hinduism in Brief 70

?Getting Particular: Mimamsa, Vedanta, and Srivaisnavism 74

?Appreciating Similarities 75

?Theistic Hinduism as a Useful and Comfortable Focus 77

?Theology as a Hindu Discipline 78

?Comparative Theology in Hinduism and Other Traditions 80

My Comparative Theology, Indebted to Hindu Theologies 83

6 Learning to See: Comparative Practice and the Widening of Theological Vision 87

?Plenary Address at the Catholic Theology Society of America, 2003 88

?Near a Goddess 88

?Devi's Beauty, Devi's Pleasure 90

?Rediscovering Mary 93

?Mary and Her Son Jesus, through Muslim Eyes 96

?Sojourner Truth's Liberating God 99

?All in Christ, but Still All 103

?Vocation 105

?After Learning to See 106

Part III The Fruits of Comparison 109

7 Theology After Comparison 111

?Comparative Theology and the Larger Work of Theology 111

?The Multiple Responsibilities of the Comparative Theologian 113

?Some Theological Presuppositions Implicit in Comparative Theology 114

?Comparative Theological Learning, in Particular 117

?The Imago Dei and Our Destiny in Bliss 118

?What Narayana Might Mean for the Christian 121

?Encountering Goddesses 123

?Comparative Theology and the Intensification of Devotion 125

?Theology on a Smaller Scale 127

8 God for Us 128

God for Us: An Essay 128

?A Verse, a Clue 129

?What Hindus Thought about the Verse 130

?Living the Verse 132

The Verse and Its Wider Context 133

?An Aside on How to See God and on How God Wills to Be Seen 135

?Noticing One's First Citizenship: Reflection on Ignatian Insight and My Home Citizenship 139

?What Ignatius Had to Say 1...

Biographie:
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).

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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)....