Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection. Edited by Michelle VossRoberts. Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. Pp. vi + 326. Hardback, $110.00; paper, $27.60.

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-268
Author(s):  
Amos Yong
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Comparative Theology

Sharing Abraham? Narrative Worldview, Biblical and Qur’anic Interpretation and Comparative Theology in Turkey

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-92
Author(s):  
Heiko Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Qur'anic Interpretation

SummaryBristow offers an important contribution to really crucial issues. He deals with many significant aspects, stimulates further thinking and invites one’s own positioning. The author impressively demonstrates the value of theological reflection growing from the interaction with others and developing its meaning in such setting. His book excels through helpful observations and important perspectives, which offer many beneficial stimuli. This represents the successful start of a series and more volumes will hopefully follow soon.RésuméBristow apporte ici une contribution importante sur des questions cruciales. Il aborde de nombreux aspects pertinents, stimule la réflexion et invite le lecteur à se positionner. Il montre de façon impressionnante l’intérêt d’une réflexion théologique qui progresse dans l’interaction avec d’autres et qui élabore sa signification dans un tel contexte. Cet ouvrage est excellent en vertu de ses observations utiles et de ses perspectives importantes, avec de nombreux apports stimulants. C’est un début réussi pour une série dans laquelle de nombreux autres volumes devraient suivre dans un proche avenir.ZusammenfassungBristow legt einen wichtigen Beitrag zu durchaus weichenstellenden Fragen vor. Er behandelt viele wichtige Aspekte und regt zum Weiterdenken und zur eigenen Positionierung an. Der Verfasser demonstriert eindrücklich den Wert von theologischen Reflexionen, die aus der Begegnung mit Menschen herauswachsen, daran wachsen und dort ihre Bedeutung entfalten können. Das Buch zeichnet sich durch gute Beobachtungen und wichtige Perspektiven aus, die viele gute Impulse anbieten. Der Start in diese Buchreihe ist damit gelungen. Weitere Bände schließen sich dem hoffentlich bald an.

Cognitive Metaphor Theory Integrated into Comparative Theology

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-183
Author(s):  
Yesudasan Remias
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Cognitive Metaphor ◽  
Metaphor Theory

Abstract The emergence of the new comparative theology in the west has greatly benefitted from Indian Vedic texts and related ones. Despite their extensive use for western theological reflection, comparative theology, however, has not come to the limelight in India, since most of the western initiatives have been perceived to be camouflaged missionary efforts. This paper proposes the cognitive metaphor theory as a fitting supplement to comparative theology. I argue that combining both has much to offer to study, learn, and relate religions in the multi-religiously coexisting context of India. I explore its possibilities and challenges and address how new comparative theology stays distinct from its nineteenth-century efforts in terms of bridging religious traditions by learning from them. This paper draws much from my own experiences, insights, and studies as a native of Indian culture, brought up in Christian tradition. My studies and researches are focused on comparative theology developed through the lens of cognitive metaphor theory.

Introduction to Comparative Theology in Australia and Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-138
Author(s):  
Francis X. Clooney
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
North American ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Christian Theology ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Ritual Practice ◽  
International Conference ◽  
The North ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Western European

Abstract Comparative theology is a form of theology, and as such, a matter of “faith seeking understanding.” Like other forms of Christian theology, it is indebted to scripture and tradition, attentive to texts, and also to images, ritual practice, piety, and experience. Like other forms of theological reflection, it also needs to be contextually nuanced, lest it be too much identified with the North American and Western European academic contexts. The growth of comparative theology in Asia and Australia over the last decade is one of the most exciting developments in the field. These essays, the majority of which were given at an international conference at the Australian Catholic University in July 2019, signal the ways in which comparative theology benefits from its clarification and adaptation in Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, and South Korea.

Islamic Images of Isa/Jesus in the Chester Beatty Manuscript Collection: Visual Art as Framework for Comparative Christology

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 488-506
Author(s):  
Miriam Y. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Religious Tradition ◽  
Visual Media ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Sacred Texts ◽  
Textual Interpretation ◽  
Interpretive Process

Abstract Textual analysis has served as a paradigmatic approach to comparative theology for some time while analysis through artistic and visual media has received less attention. Most approaches to comparative theology rely on textual comparison of sacred texts. However, visual art is also a compelling way to engage in comparative theology and specifically comparative Christology. To demonstrate the power of visual art as a tool for comparative theology, I draw upon two recently published sixteenth-century Islamic images of Isa/Jesus from the Chester Beatty manuscript collection to illustrate how artwork can structure the work of comparative Christology by providing an entry point into Islam’s aesthetic tradition and relevant sacred texts. Paul Ricoeur’s theory of textual interpretation provides a theoretical framework, and I draw upon and extend his theory to describe the way visual art can initiate the interpretive process and move us through explanation toward understanding of another religious tradition, which in turn has the potential to transform theological reflection and generate theological insight.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christian T. Collins Winn ◽  
Martha L. Moore-Keish
Keyword(s):  
Religious Pluralism ◽  
Theological Reflection ◽  
Comparative Theology ◽  
Church Dogmatics ◽  
Mutual Learning ◽  
Theological Thinking

The introduction to this volume sets this project in the wider field of comparative theology and Barth studies, seeking to introduce scholars in each field to each other in order to facilitate mutual learning. The editors acknowledge that Barth has usually been interpreted as hostile to interreligious learning, but they note a number of recent works that have sought to engage Barth as a fruitful source for theologies of religious pluralism, including J. A. DiNoia, Garrett Green, Paul Chung, Glenn Chestnutt, Tom Greggs, and Sven Ensminger. Collins Winn and Moore-Keish then situate this project as the next step: drawing on Barth’s own sharp theological thinking not to justify comparative theology, but simply to engage in it. Following a brief explication of the most relevant passages in Barth’s Church Dogmatics on the topic of religion and the religions, the introduction then offers a description of the volume and its array of comparative experiments in theological reflection. They conclude with the hope that scholars both comparative and Barthian will find fodder for further reflection, with conversation partners they never expected to find.

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