While traditional Christian thought and spirituality have always affirmed the divine presence in human life, Thatamanil argues we have much to learn from non-dualistic Hindu thought, especially that of the eighth-century thinker Sankara, and from the Christian panentheism of Paul Tillich. Thatamanil compares their diagnoses and prognoses of the human predicament in light of their doctrine of God or Ultimate Reality. What emerges is a new theology of God and human beings, with a richer and more radical conception of divine immanence, a reconceived divine transcendence, and a keener sense of how the dynamic and active Spirit at work in us anchors real hope and deep joy. Using key insights from Christian and Hindu thought Thatamanil vindicates comparative theology, expands the vocabulary about the ineffable God, and arrives at a new construal of the problems and prospects of the human condition.
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...demonstrates how comparative theology is a quickly maturing discipline, able to engage fundamental and wide-reaching human and religious issues. --Fancis X. Clooney, S.J. Harvard Divinity School
In this spendid contribution to the emergent field of comparative theology, an ecstatic Christian ontology encounters an apophatic Asian anthropology. --Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, author of Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming
...creatively shows how the theologies of Sankara and Tillich are enriched by being brought into dialogue. --Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College, author of The Advaita Worldview
In this spendid contribution to the emergent field of comparative theology, an ecstatic Christian ontology encounters an apophatic Asian anthropology. --Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, author of Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming
...creatively shows how the theologies of Sankara and Tillich are enriched by being brought into dialogue. --Anantanand Rambachan, Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College, author of The Advaita Worldview
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John J. Thatamanil is Assistant Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, Tennessee. His prior teaching has been at Boston University and at Millsaps College. He is past President of the North American Paul Tillich Society.
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The Immanent Divine is written by one of the most thoughtful and well-informed religious scholars in America and in the world. An American citizen of Indian birth and a compassionate practicing Christian of powerful intellect, professor Thatamanil's book deserves a wide audience. His analysis of Hindu thought in relation to Christian faith is a stimulus for awakening the faith of ultimate concern rather than that of mere social conformity.
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The Immanent Divine is an intellegent and well-writen book which sould be of interest not only to theological prodessionals but also to laymen familiar with theological writing. It must have taken courage for the author to take on a comparison of two as seemingly divergent thinkers as Sankara and Tillich and so convincingly show how they may engage each other in comfortable dialogue. This book not only informs but also challenges one to think "out of the box."
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transitory dualism, ontological creativity, transition from essence, mystical courage, apophatic anthropology, unambiguous life, comparative theologians, limiting adjuncts, grounding activity, living liberation, comparative theology, dreaming innocence, liberated person, liberating knowledge, conditional features, comparative categories, existential estrangement, human predicament, comparative category, separated existence, ontological distance, radical immanence, immanent divine, conventional experience, substantial independence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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transitory dualism, ontological creativity, transition from essence, mystical courage, apophatic anthropology, unambiguous life, comparative theologians, limiting adjuncts, grounding activity, living liberation, comparative theology, dreaming innocence, liberated person, liberating knowledge, conditional features, comparative categories, existential estrangement, human predicament, comparative category, separated existence, ontological distance, radical immanence, immanent divine, conventional experience, substantial independence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Spiritual Presence, Paul Tillich, Advaita Vedanta, Sankara's Advaita, Bhagavad Gita, Joseph Bracken, New Being, Orbis Books, Oxford University Press, Robert Neville, Lance Nelson, Advaita Ashrama, Commentary of Sankaracarya, Meister Eckhart, Swami Gambhirananda, Wilhelm Halbfass, Richard King, Nicholas of Cusa, Paul Hacker, Chandogya Upanishad, Christian God, Eight Upanisads, Fortress Press, Mark Heim New!
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- The New Being by Paul Tillich on 6 pages
- Eight Upanisads with the commentary of Sankaracarya (Two Vols.) by Swami Gambhirananda on 4 pages
- Systematic Theology. Three Volumes in One by Paul Tillich on 4 pages
- Orientalism and Religion: Post-Colonial Theory, India and "The Mystic East" by Richard King on page 8, page 13, and page 29
- Theology of Culture (Galaxy Books) by Paul Tillich in Front Matter, page 18, and page 95
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