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Theology after Ved�anta : an experiment in comparative theology / Francis X. Clooney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religionsPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1993.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585053634
  • 9780585053639
  • 0791413659
  • 9780791413654
  • 0791413667
  • 9780791413661
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Theology after Ved�anta.DDC classification:
  • 181/.482 20
LOC classification:
  • B132.A3 C67 1993eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Chapter one: Comparative theology and the practice of Advaita Ved�anta -- The elements of the experiment -- Comparative theology -- Comparative theology as practical knowledge -- Advaita, text and commentary -- Practical implications -- Chapter two: The texture of the Advaita Ved�anta text -- The texture of the Advaita text -- The rough texture of the Upani�sads -- The organization of Upani�sadic knowledge in the UMS -- The contextualization of meaning through engaged reading -- Chapter three: the truth of Advaita Ved�anta -- The problem of truth in the text -- Strategies of textual truth -- Truth after the text: the true meaning of the Upani�sads and the world of Advaita -- Defending Brahman: The fragmentation of the other in the text -- Truth, text and reader -- A concluding note on Advaita and intertextual truth -- Chapter four: Advaita Ved�anta and its readers -- The tension between the text and its truth -- Timeless truth, timely reading: the truth in reading -- Becoming a reader -- The constraints on liberation and the cessation of reading in UMS III. 4: description as prescription -- Advaita Elitism and the possibility of the unauthorized reader: finding a loophole -- Chapter five: Theology after Advaita Ved�anta: the text, the truth, and the Theologian -- The practice of comparative theology -- The composition of the text for comparative theology: reading the Summa Theologiae and the Uttara M�im�a�ms�a Sutras together -- The truth of comparative theology -- The education of the comparative theologian -- Finishing the experiment.
Summary: Annotation That is, Christian theology after reading Vedanta. An experimental combination of three elements: a detailed study of the Indian theology called Advaita Vedanta; a re-examination of Christian comparative theology as rethought in the light of Vedanta insights; and an exploration of the tensions between the first two. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-256) and indexes.

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Annotation That is, Christian theology after reading Vedanta. An experimental combination of three elements: a detailed study of the Indian theology called Advaita Vedanta; a re-examination of Christian comparative theology as rethought in the light of Vedanta insights; and an exploration of the tensions between the first two. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Chapter one: Comparative theology and the practice of Advaita Ved�anta -- The elements of the experiment -- Comparative theology -- Comparative theology as practical knowledge -- Advaita, text and commentary -- Practical implications -- Chapter two: The texture of the Advaita Ved�anta text -- The texture of the Advaita text -- The rough texture of the Upani�sads -- The organization of Upani�sadic knowledge in the UMS -- The contextualization of meaning through engaged reading -- Chapter three: the truth of Advaita Ved�anta -- The problem of truth in the text -- Strategies of textual truth -- Truth after the text: the true meaning of the Upani�sads and the world of Advaita -- Defending Brahman: The fragmentation of the other in the text -- Truth, text and reader -- A concluding note on Advaita and intertextual truth -- Chapter four: Advaita Ved�anta and its readers -- The tension between the text and its truth -- Timeless truth, timely reading: the truth in reading -- Becoming a reader -- The constraints on liberation and the cessation of reading in UMS III. 4: description as prescription -- Advaita Elitism and the possibility of the unauthorized reader: finding a loophole -- Chapter five: Theology after Advaita Ved�anta: the text, the truth, and the Theologian -- The practice of comparative theology -- The composition of the text for comparative theology: reading the Summa Theologiae and the Uttara M�im�a�ms�a Sutras together -- The truth of comparative theology -- The education of the comparative theologian -- Finishing the experiment.

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