Theology after Vedānta : an experiment in comparative theology /
Annotation
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1993.
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Colección: | SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Chapter one: Comparative theology and the practice of Advaita Vedānta
- The elements of the experiment
- Comparative theology
- Comparative theology as practical knowledge
- Advaita, text and commentary
- Practical implications
- Chapter two: The texture of the Advaita Vedānta text
- The texture of the Advaita text
- The rough texture of the Upaniṣads
- The organization of Upaniṣadic knowledge in the UMS
- The contextualization of meaning through engaged reading
- Chapter three: the truth of Advaita Vedānta
- The problem of truth in the text
- Strategies of textual truth
- Truth after the text: the true meaning of the Upaniṣads and the world of Advaita
- Defending Brahman: The fragmentation of the other in the text
- Truth, text and reader
- A concluding note on Advaita and intertextual truth
- Chapter four: Advaita Vedānta and its readers
- The tension between the text and its truth
- Timeless truth, timely reading: the truth in reading
- Becoming a reader
- The constraints on liberation and the cessation of reading in UMS III. 4: description as prescription
- Advaita Elitism and the possibility of the unauthorized reader: finding a loophole
- Chapter five: Theology after Advaita Vedānta: the text, the truth, and the Theologian
- The practice of comparative theology
- The composition of the text for comparative theology: reading the Summa Theologiae and the Uttara Mīmāṃsā Sutras together
- The truth of comparative theology
- The education of the comparative theologian
- Finishing the experiment.