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Beyond compare : St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedanta Desika on loving surrender to God /

Beyond Compare is a remarkable work that offers a commentary on spiritual learning for the twenty-first century rooted in two classic texts from the Hindu and Christian traditions: the Essence of the Three Auspicious Mysteries by Sri Vedanta Desika and Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de S...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2008].
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245 1 0 |a Beyond compare :  |b St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedanta Desika on loving surrender to God /  |c Francis X. Clooney, SJ. 
260 |a Washington, D.C. :  |b Georgetown University Press,  |c [2008]. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-253) and index. 
505 0 |a Chapter 1. Two spiritual classics and the possibilities they present -- On writing as a scholar beyond himself : 1996 -- Reading loving surrender across religious boundaries -- Vedānta Deśika, his Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition, and the Essence -- Francis de Sales, his Catholic tradition, and his Treatise -- Vedānta Deśika and Francis de Sales, brought into conversation -- "Loving surrender" as the key in this double reading -- Some cautions as we look ahead -- Chapter 2. Thinking, writing, reading : finding a path to loving surrender -- The problem of reason in interpreting religious truths -- Reason's limits and potential in the Treatise -- De Sales on pagan and Christian learning -- Reason's limits and potential in the Essence -- The ascent of the mind and heart to God -- Conversion : reason and the leap beyond -- Deśika on conversion -- De Sales on conversion -- The self-understanding and intentions of Deśika and de Sales as writers -- Why de Sales writes, and with what authority -- Why Deśika writes, and with what authority -- From writer to reader : on the exercise of religious reading -- Paul Griffiths -- Pierre Hadot -- Chapter 3. Awakening : reading and learning on the way to God -- Scripture, inscribed in the Treatise and Essence -- De Sales' use of scripture -- Appropriating scripture's wisdom -- An example : the liquefaction of the soul -- Deśika's use of scripture -- "Five things to be known" : first, God's nature -- The self and obstacles to attaining God -- Engaging the reader : person to person -- De Sales makes it personal : learning by example -- Reports of heroic persons -- Addressing the reader : o, Theotimus -- Deśika's sparer, more traditional approach -- Hearing great persons of the Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition -- Shifting the way we read : from prose to poetry -- A lineage of verses, a lineage of teachers -- Reading more intensely to discover a destiny -- The particulars of rapture : advice from Charles Altieri -- The complex text and the complex reader -- Chapter 4. Loving surrender : insight, drama, and ecstasy -- The theological presuppositions of self-abandonment -- De Sales : freely choosing to let God be all in all -- Deśika : from devotion to human readiness -- Deśika's exegesis of the Dvaya mantra -- The first clause : I approach for refuge the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī -- I approach Nārāyaṇa : Nārāyaṇam prapadye -- I approach Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīman-Nārāyaṇam prapadye -- I approach the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīmannārāyaṇa-caraṇau prapadye -- For refuge I approach the feet of Nārāyaṇa with Śrī : Śrīmannārāyaṇa-caraṇau śaraṇam prapadye -- I approach : prapadye -- The second clause : obeisance to Nārāyaṇa with Śrī -- With Śrī : Śrīmate -- For Nārāyaṇa : Nārāyaṇa-āya -- Obeisance : namaḥ -- The whole Dvaya mantra -- De Sales on love and loving surrender -- The foundations of love -- A note on deep pleasure (complaisance) -- Deep pleasure, conformity, and obedience -- The role of the indifferent heart -- De Sales' mantra? -- Loving surrender -- intensified -- Chapter 5. As we become ourselves : on the ethics of loving surrender and of persistence in reading -- Life after loving surrender to God -- Deśika on life after refuge -- De Sales on life after loving surrender -- On being a religious reader and writer after the Essence and Treatise -- On becoming the right person -- Reason humbled and restored (Chapter 2) -- The grounded, liberated, passionate reader (Chapter 3) -- The vulnerability and safe haven of the (inter)religious reader (Chapter 4) -- A final word. 
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