Comparative theology and the problem of religious rivalry

Comparative theology and the problem of religious rivalry / Hugh Nicholson.

This title presents a model of interreligious theology that seeks to reconcile the ideal of religious tolerance with an acknowledgement of the extent to which religious communities construct identity on the basis of religious differences.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nicholson, Hugh (Hugh R.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Series:Reflection and theory in the study of religion.
Subjects:
Eckhart, > Meister, > -1327.
Śaṅkarācārya.
Eckhart, > Meister, > -1327
Śaṅkarācārya
Religions > Relations.
Christianity and other religions > Hinduism.
Hinduism > Relations > Christianity.
Mysticism.
mysticism.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
RELIGION > Theology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
Religion.
Christianity
Hinduism
Interfaith relations
Mysticism
Religions
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • A Utopian Quest for Unmarked Faith
  • The Inescapability of the Political
  • The Political Goes “All the Way Downâ€?
  • A Shift in Strategy
  • Demarginalizing Comparative Theology
  • The Argument of This Book
  • Part I: Theology and the Political
  • 1. The Reunification of Theology and Comparison in the New Comparative Theology
  • The Comparative Theology of the Nineteenth-Century
  • The New Comparative Theology as a Fresh Alternative to the Theology of Religions
  • A Comparison of Comparative Theologies
  • Comparative Theology as an Expression of Global Hegemonism?Comparative Theology as the Paradigm for the New Comparativism
  • Two Kinds of Acknowledgment
  • 2. The Modern Quest to Depoliticize Theology
  • Enlightenment Natural Religion
  • Schleiermacherâ€?s True Church
  • Dreyâ€?s Concept of World Religion
  • Clarkeâ€?s Comparative Theology
  • The Transition from Christian Universalism to Religious Pluralism
  • George Lindbeck and the Postliberal Turn
  • Kathryn Tannerâ€?s Relational Theory of Christian Identity
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 3. From Apologetics to Comparison: Toward a Dialectical Model of Comparative TheologyThe Political Moment in Tannerâ€?s Relational Theory of Christian Identity
  • The Political Moment of Christian Identity: Two Christian Apologetic Constructions of Self and Other
  • Comparison as a Technique for Deconstructing Dichotomous Typifications
  • The Inscription of Comparative Theology in an Apologetic Tradition
  • Part II: Mysticism East and West Revisited
  • 4. Mysticism East and West as Christian Apologetic
  • Ottoâ€?s Apologetic in Mysticism East and West
  • The Retrieval of Meister Eckhart and the Question of PantheismThe Emergence of Åšankaraâ€?s Vednta as the Epitome of Hinduism
  • Ottoâ€?s Use of Both the Perennialist and Apologetic Traditions
  • The Parallels between the Two Masters
  • The Essential Difference between Åšankara and Eckhart
  • 5. God and the God beyond God in Eckhart and Åšankara
  • Two Theological Paradigms in Eckhartâ€?s Mystical Theology
  • Åšankaraâ€?s Concept of Brahman as a Double Paradigm
  • The Proto-Commentator and the IÅ?vara Paradigm
  • Åšankara and the Apophatic Paradigm
  • 6. From Acosmism to Dialectic: Åšankara and Eckhart on the Ontological Status of the Phenomenal WorldThe Problem of Acosmism in Åšankara and Eckhart
  • A Transformative Commentary on Realist Vedanta: Åšankaraâ€?s Reinterpretation of BS 2.1.14
  • From Analogy to Dialectic: Eckhartâ€?s Reinterpretation of the Analogia Entis
  • Dialectic in the BSBh: The “Double Beingâ€? of Åšankaraâ€?s “Name and Formâ€?
  • 7. Liberative Knowledge as “Living without a Whyâ€?
  • Eckhartâ€?s “Living without a Whyâ€?: Spontaneous Activity from Detachment

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