Scholarly Initiation, Scholarly Approach
As his confession in the beginning of the work Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders, he does not follow exactly a method for his doing comparative theology but rather his discipline when doing it. He also realizes that his examples are limited by drawing from his own studies and works on Hindu-Christian traditions. Lately, he focuses only on faith and tradition so it seems that the readers without a religious tradition are marginalized. However, it is fair to say that this comparative theology is rooted in the religious concerns of the religious diversity so if we remove elements of faith, traditions, and communities, what could be the foundation and ground for us to begin the discussion.
Religious Reading as a Practice of Comparative Theology
The contexts for doing comparative theology are various, such as prayer, liturgy, music, art, and religious reading of a particular tradition. Clooney considers, “the foremost prospect for a fruitful comparative theology is the reading of text, preferably scriptural and theological texts that have endured over centuries and millennia, and that have guided communities in their understandings of God, self, and other.” Religious texts lead us to encounter a greater spiritual power …show more content…
Clooney notes, “Readers turning to this kind of comparative theology will not quickly gain the meaning of comparative leaning or of diversity. They are simply gaining particular insights that facilitate small, useful engagements in diversity.” Fredericks recognizes that the nature of this journey is gradual because it depends on the “community effort” in order to make the messages of interreligious conversations known and to transform Christian believers for a better religious vision and spirituality, which help Christians to encounter the truth amid religious
As his confession in the beginning of the work Comparative Theology: Deep Learning across Religious Borders, he does not follow exactly a method for his doing comparative theology but rather his discipline when doing it. He also realizes that his examples are limited by drawing from his own studies and works on Hindu-Christian traditions. Lately, he focuses only on faith and tradition so it seems that the readers without a religious tradition are marginalized. However, it is fair to say that this comparative theology is rooted in the religious concerns of the religious diversity so if we remove elements of faith, traditions, and communities, what could be the foundation and ground for us to begin the discussion.
Religious Reading as a Practice of Comparative Theology
The contexts for doing comparative theology are various, such as prayer, liturgy, music, art, and religious reading of a particular tradition. Clooney considers, “the foremost prospect for a fruitful comparative theology is the reading of text, preferably scriptural and theological texts that have endured over centuries and millennia, and that have guided communities in their understandings of God, self, and other.” Religious texts lead us to encounter a greater spiritual power …show more content…
Clooney notes, “Readers turning to this kind of comparative theology will not quickly gain the meaning of comparative leaning or of diversity. They are simply gaining particular insights that facilitate small, useful engagements in diversity.” Fredericks recognizes that the nature of this journey is gradual because it depends on the “community effort” in order to make the messages of interreligious conversations known and to transform Christian believers for a better religious vision and spirituality, which help Christians to encounter the truth amid religious