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How to Do Comparative Theology (Paperback)
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How to Do Comparative Theology (Paperback)
Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
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For 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? 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.
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