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Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry (Hardcover, New)
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Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry (Hardcover, New)
Series: AAR Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion
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In theological discourse, argues Hugh Nicholson, the political goes
"all the way down." One never reaches a bedrock level of
politically neutral religious facts, because all theological
discourse - even the most sublime, edifying, and "spiritual"--is
shot through with polemical elements.
Liberal theologies, from the Christian fulfillment theology of the
nineteenth century to the pluralist theology of the twentieth, have
assumed that religious writings attain spiritual truth and
sublimity despite any polemical elements they might contain.
Through his analysis and comparison of the Christian mystical
theologian Meister Eckhart and his Hindu counterpart IaSkara,
Nicholson arrives at a very different conclusion. Polemical
elements may in fact constitute the creative source of the
expressive power of religious discourses. Wayne Proudfoot has
argued that mystical discourses embody a set of rules that repel
any determinate understanding of the ineffable object or experience
they purport to describe. In Comparative Theology and the Problem
of Religious Rivalry, Nicholson suggests that this principle of
negation is connected, perhaps through a process of abstraction and
sublimation, with the need to distinguish oneself from one's intra-
and/or inter-religious adversaries.
Nicholson proposes a new model of comparative theology that
recognizes and confronts one of the most urgent cultural and
political issues of our time: namely, the "return of the political"
in the form of anti-secular and fundamentalist movements around the
world. This model acknowledges the ineradicable nature of an
oppositional dimension of religious discourse, while honoring and
even advancing the liberal project of curtailing intolerance and
prejudice in the sphere of religion."
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