"His Hiding Place is Darkness" explores the uncertainties of faith
and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that
studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than
attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of
comparative theology seeks a way beyond today's religious and
interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading of the
absence of the beloved in the Biblical Song of Songs with a
pioneering study of the same theme in the Holy Word of Mouth (9th
century CE), a classic of Hindu mystical poetry rarely studied in
the West.
Remarkably, the pairing of these texts is grounded not in a general
theory of religion, but in an engagement with two unexpected
sources: the theopoetics, theodramatics, and theology of the
20th-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the
intensely perceived and written poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner
Jorie Graham. How we read and write on religious matters is
transformed by this rare combination of voices in what is surely a
unique and important contribution to comparative studies and
religious hermeneutics.
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