Comparing faithfully
Subtitle: insights for systematic theological reflection
By: Michelle Voss Roberts, editor
Edition: First edition.
Series: Comparative theology: thinking across traditions; Comparative theology--thinking across traditions
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780823274666; 9780823274673; 9780823274680; 9780823274697
Subjects: Social Issues; Systematische Theologie; Christian Life; Christianity; RELIGION; General; Theology; Christianity and other religions
Description: In comparative theology, an adherent of one religious tradition reflects on faith through deep and focused conversation with another tradition. This volume equips students of Christian theology for leadership in a pluralistic world through conversations about God, theodicy, humanity, Christology, and soteriology that take seriously the wisdom of religious neighbors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: A Place for Comparative Theology in Christian Systematic Reflection; I: Divinity; 1 The Dance of Emptiness: A Constructive Comparative Theology of the Social Trinity; 2 Flower and Song: A Comparative Study on Teotlizing in Aztec Theology and Karl Rahner's View of Divine Self-Disclosure; 3 Comparative Theology and the Postmodern God of "Perhaps": A Response to Sydnor and Padilla; II: Theodicy; 4 Developing Christian Theodicy in Conversation with Navid Kermani.; title: 5 Like a Dog's Curly Tail: Finding Perfection in a World of Imperfection: A Hindu Theodicy in the Tradition of Sri Ramakrishna6 "Only Goodness Matters": Reflections on Theodicy with Klaus von Stosch and Jeffery Long; III: Humanity; 7 Longing and Letting Go: Lessons in Being Human from Hadewijch and Mirabai; 8 Women's Virtue, Church Leadership, and the Problem of Gender Complementarity; 9 Longing and Gender: A Response to Holly Hillgardner and Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier; IV: Christology; 10 What Child Is This? Jesus, Lord Lao, and Divine Identity.; title: 11 Who Is the Suffering Servant? A Comparative Theological Reading of Isaiah 53 after the Shoah12 Response: Christology in Comparative Perspective; V: Soteriology; 13 The Way(s) of Salvation: The Function of the Law in John Calvin and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali; 14 Sleeper, Awake: Considering the Soteriological Promise of Popular Spiritual Gurus; 15 Salvation in the After-Living: Reflections on Salvation with Joshua Ralston and Sharon Betcher; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.