Watching Clouds : Engaging in dialogue across disparate world-pictures

ISBN-13: 9783639149883 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 196 str.

Scott O.P. Steinkerchner

Opis

Watching Clouds is about how to have productiveinterreligious theological dialogue between different traditionswhen the religious differences are so large that finding common groundseems unlikely. The book offers a way to think aboutinterreligious dialogue that allows us to stay committed to our owntruth as we have come to know it while being open to learningfrom other religions. It then outlines a way for Christiantheologians to enter into a profitable dialogue with the beliefs andtraditions of other religions. The book examines a long-standing religious debatewithin Buddhism surrounding the Buddha-Nature, comparing therang-stong view of Tsongkhapa and the gzhan-stong view ofDolpopa, two medieval Tibetan Buddhist scholars, as well asthe modern work Francis X. Clooney, S.J., who pursuesHindu-Christian dialogue in the mode of comparative theology. It thenuses the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to construct aframework with which to understand these religious debates andcomparative approaches and ends with offering practicalguidelines on making these dialogues productive.

O autorze

Visiting Professor of Interreligious Theology at the Aquinas
Institute of Theology in St. Louis, USA, and international
coordinator and promoter of
the Internet for the Order of Preachers