How to Do Comparative Theology (Web PDF) von Francis X. Clooney

Introduction: Francis X. Clooney, SJ, and Klaus von Stosch

I Doing Comparative Theology — As Theology
1.Catherine Cornille: The Problem of Choice in Comparative Theology
2.Klaus von Stosch: Reflecting on Approaches to Jesus in the Qur’an from the Perspective of Comparative Theology
3.Aaron Langenfeld: The Moment of Truth: Comparative and Dogmatic Theology
4.Hugh Nicholson: Rhetorics of Theological One-Upsmanship in Christianity and Buddhism: Athanasius’ Polemic against the Arians and Vasubandhu’s Refutation of Pudgalavāda Buddhism
5.Axel Marc Takács: “An Interpreter and Not a Judge:” Insights into a Christian-Islamic Comparative Theology
6.Glenn Willis: Necessary Imperfection: Notes for the Cultured Despisers of Comparison

II Comparative Theology Is What Comparative Theology Does
7.Michelle Voss-Roberts: Embodiment, Anthropology, and Comparison: Thinking-Feeling with Non-Dual Saivism
8.Marianne Moyaert: Comparative Theology after the Shoah: Risks, pivots and opportunities of Comparing traditions
9.Muna Tatari: Justice and Mercy: Using Comparative Insights for Developing Kalam
10.Francis X. Clooney, SJ: Difficult Remainders: Seeking Comparative Theology’s Really Difficult Other
11.Shoshana Razel: Sagi Nahor—Enough Light: Dialectic Tension Between Luminescent Resonance and Blind Assumption in Comparative Theology

III Recognizing Comparative Theology by Its Fruits
12.Emma O’Donnell: Methodological Considerations on the Role of Experience in Comparative Theology
13.Brad Bannon: Incarnational Speech: Comparative Theology as Learning to Hear and Preach
14.Michael Barnes, SJ: Living Interreligiously: On the ‘pastoral style’ of Comparative Theology
15.Stephanie Corigliano: Theologizing for the Yoga Community? Commitment and Hybridity in Comparative Theology