A Companion to Comparative Theology (Brill's Companions to Modern Theology, 2)

This Companion to Comparative Theology offers a survey of historical developments, contemporary approaches and future directions in a field of theology that has experienced rapid growth and expansion in the past decades. 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 "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 "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"-- Page 4 of cover