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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Clooney and von Stosch have produced a truly excellent collection of papers in comparative theology. They and a few others with papers in this volume are seasoned, senior scholars. The volume is remarkable, however, for introducing the work of mid-career and very new scholars. Some of the papers do actual comparisons and some apply comparative theology to practices of religious life. Among the most interesting are those dealing with methodological differences regarding comparative theology. They all defend the view that comparative theology is "faith seeking understanding," and they explore some of the very different ways this approach can be interpreted. This volume is a vital and distinctive contribution to the larger field of comparative theology." -- -Robert Cummings Neville Boston University
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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 Pudgalavāda 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
