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Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics - Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters (Hardcover)
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Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics - Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters (Hardcover)
Series: Richard Lectures
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We live in an era of unprecedented growth in knowledge. Never
before has there been so great an availability of and access to
information in both print and online. Yet as opportunities to
educate ourselves have greatly increased, our time for reading has
significantly diminished. And when we do read, we rarely have the
patience to read in the slow, sustained fashion that great books
require if we are to be truly transformed by them. In Reading the
Hindu and Christian Classics, renowned Harvard Divinity School
professor Francis Clooney argues that our increasing inability to
read in a concerted manner is particularly notable in the realm of
religion, where the proliferation of information detracts from the
learning of practices that require slow and patient reading.
Although awareness of the world’s many religions is at an
all-time high, deep knowledge of the various traditions has
suffered. Clooney challenges this trend by considering six classic
Hindu and Christian texts dealing with ritual and law, catechesis
and doctrine, and devotion and religious participation,
showing how, in distinctive ways, such texts instruct, teach truth,
and draw willing readers to participate in the realities they are
learning. Through readings of these seminal scriptural and
theological texts, he reveals the rewards of a more spiritually
transformative mode of reading—and how individuals and
communities can achieve it.
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