Watching Clouds: Engaging in dialogue across disparate world-pictures - Couverture souple

Steinkerchner, O.P., Scott

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3639149882 ISBN 13 : 9783639149883

Editeur : VDM Verlag, 2009

Synopsis

Watching Clouds is about how to have productive interreligious theological dialogue between different traditions when the religious differences are so large that finding common ground seems unlikely. The book offers a way to think about interreligious dialogue that allows us to stay committed to our own truth as we have come to know it while being open to learning from other religions. It then outlines a way for Christian theologians to enter into a profitable dialogue with the beliefs and traditions of other religions. The book examines a long-standing religious debate within Buddhism surrounding the Buddha-Nature, comparing the rang- stong view of Tsongkhapa and the gzhan-stong view of Dolpopa, two medieval Tibetan Buddhist scholars, as well as the modern work Francis X. Clooney, S.J., who pursues Hindu-Christian dialogue in the mode of comparative theology. It then uses the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to construct a framework with which to understand these religious debates and comparative approaches and ends with offering practical guidelines on making these dialogues productive.

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À propos de l'auteur

Visiting Professor of Interreligious Theology at the Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, USA, and international coordinator and promoter of the Internet for the Order of Preachers

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: VDM Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639149882
• ISBN 13: 9783639149883
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 196
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible