Circling the Elephant : : A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity / / John J. Thatamanil.

Christian theologians have for some decades affirmed that they have no monopoly on encounters with God or ultimate reality and that other religions also have access to religious truth and transformation. If that is the case, the time has come for Christians not only to learn about but also from thei...

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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions ; 8
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface: Autobiography and Comparative Theology
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction: Revisiting an Old Tale
  • 1. Religious Difference and Christian Theology: Thinking About, Thinking With, and Thinking Through
  • 2. The Limits and Promise of Exclusivism and Inclusivism: Assessing Major Options in Theologies of Religious Diversity
  • 3. No One Ascends Alone: Toward a Relational Pluralism
  • 4. Comparative Theology after Religion?
  • 5. Defining the Religious: Comprehensive Qualitative Orientation
  • 6. The Hospitality of Receiving: Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Interreligious Learning
  • 7. God as Ground, Singularity, and Relation: Trinity and Religious Diversity
  • 8. This Is Not a Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index