A Companion to Comparative Theology.

• Superior document: Brill's Companions to Modern Theology
• Author: Valkenberg, Pim.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Companions to Modern Theology
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (655 pages)

"A Companion to Comparative Theology offers a unique survey of a rapidly developing field of modern theology in 32 chapters coordinated by five editors. Its first part discusses some of the main historical developments in theology and religious studies before 1985 that are relevant for understanding contemporary approaches in comparative theology. The main part of the companion traces developments in five specific areas of comparative research, starting with classical approaches by Christian comparative theologians, and continuing with responses by scholars from Jewish, Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese religious comparative perspectives. The final part of the companion highlights a number of new avenues in comparative theology, discussing new methods, new forms of awareness, new partnerships with other fields of study, and finally some preliminary conclusions. Contributors are: Nadeen Mustafa A Alsulaimi, María Enid Barga, Bede Benjamin Bidlack, André van der Braak, Francis X. Clooney, Catherine Cornille, Jonathan Edelmann, Marianne Farina, James L. Fredericks, Rouyan Gu, Paul Hedges, Holly Hilgardner, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Louis Komjathy, Christian S. Krokus, LAI, Pan-chiu, Kristin Johnston Largen, John Makransky, Jerry L. Martin, Vahid Mahdavi Mehr, Marianne Moyaert, Emmanuel Nathan, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Jerusha Tanner Rhodes, Devorah Schoenfeld, Klaus von Stosch, Axel Marc Oaks Takacs, Pim Valkenberg, Maureen L. Walsh, Kijin James Wu"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 Comparative Theology before 1985 -- 1 Catholic Roots for the Discipline -- 2 The Science of Religion, Comparative Religion, Mission, and the Birth of Comparative Theology -- 3 The Development of Comparative Theology in the Twentieth Century -- 4 French Comparative Theologians Before Nostra Aetate -- Part 2 Judaism -- 5 An Introduction to Christian-Jewish Comparative Theology -- 6 Unity and Mediation: The Nature of Torah and the Nature of Jesus Christ -- 7 "Therefore do Maidens Love You": Passion and Pluralism in Jewish and Christian Song of Songs Commentaries -- 8 The Significance of the Land in Birkat Hamazon: Lessons in Self-Understanding -- Part 3 Islam -- 9 David B. Burrell and the Horizon of a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Comparative Theology -- 10 The Qurʾānic Critique of Apocalyptic Ideas and a Christian Response -- 11 Can There Be an Islamic Comparative Theology? -- 12 My/Our Servant Job: Creation and Temptation as a Guide to Understanding Job as God's Servant -- Part 4 Hinduism -- 13 Riches Line the Path: An Introduction to Hindu-Christian Comparative Theology -- 14 The Hindu-Catholic Encounter: A Natural Home for Comparative Theology -- 15 Comparative Theologies of Pilgrimage: Faiths with Legs -- 16 Exploring the Risks and Rewards of Comparing Religions for the Future of Hindu Studies in 21st Century America -- Part 5 Buddhism -- 17 The Anointing at Bethany: A Buddhist Reading of Mark's Gospel -- 18 Integrating Aspects of Buddhist and Christian Liberation Epistemology to Empower Compassionate Social Action -- 19 Ending at the Beginning: Prenatal Theological Anthropology and Pregnancy Loss Memorials in Japanese Buddhism and American Catholicism -- 20 Self-love and Altruistic Love in Bodhicaryāvatāra: A Christian Theological Reflection.

Part 6 Chinese Religion -- 21 Tradition, Language, and Christian-Chinese Comparative Theology -- 22 On Comparative Theology: A Confucian Case -- 23 A Contextual Comparison of Conceptual Categories: A Christian-Confucian Test Case in Taiwan from a Ritual Perspective -- 24 Towards a Daoist Comparative Theology -- Part 7 New Perspectives in Comparative Theology -- 25 Theology without Walls -- 26 Toward a Comparative Feminist Theology -- 27 A Ritual Turn in Comparative Theology -- 28 Multiple Religious Belonging and Comparative Theology -- 29 Comparative Theology, Calligraphy and Iconography -- 30 Comparative Theology and Interreligious Studies: Embracing and Transgressing the Dialogical Relationships Among Religious Traditions -- 31 Comparative Theology: More than Comparing Theologies -- Index.