{"product_id":"comparative-theology-and-the-problem-of-religious-rivalry-9780199772865","title":"Comparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry","description":"In theological discourse, argues Hugh Nicholson, the political goes all the way down. One never reaches a bedrock level of politically neutral religious facts, because all theological discourse - even the most sublime, edifying, and spiritual--is shot through with polemical elements. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLiberal theologies, from the Christian fulfillment theology of the nineteenth century to the pluralist theology of the twentieth, have assumed that religious writings attain spiritual truth and sublimity despite any polemical elements they might contain. Through his analysis and comparison of the\u003cbr\u003eChristian mystical theologian Meister Eckhart and his Hindu counterpart Ía\u003cem\u003eS\u003c\/em\u003ekara, Nicholson arrives at a very different conclusion. Polemical elements may in fact constitute the creative source of the expressive power of religious discourses. Wayne Proudfoot has argued that mystical discourses embody\u003cbr\u003ea set of rules that repel any determinate understanding of the ineffable object or experience they purport to describe. In \u003cem\u003eComparative Theology and the Problem of Religious Rivalry\u003c\/em\u003e, Nicholson suggests that this principle of negation is connected, perhaps through a process of abstraction and\u003cbr\u003esublimation, with the need to distinguish oneself from one's intra- and\/or inter-religious adversaries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNicholson proposes a new model of comparative theology that recognizes and confronts one of the most urgent cultural and political issues of our time: namely, the return of the political in the form of anti-secular and fundamentalist movements around the world. This model acknowledges the\u003cbr\u003eineradicable nature of an oppositional dimension of religious discourse, while honoring and even advancing the liberal project of curtailing intolerance and prejudice in the sphere of religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Nicholson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199772865\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHugh Nicholson \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He has published on a wide range of topics in the study of theology and religion, including method in comparative theology, the relation between theology and the study of religion, and selected topics in classical\u003cbr\u003eIndian philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39937653047411,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_3825877b-26f1-4b3a-8053-d4e583ef42d3.jpg?v=1647995048","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/comparative-theology-and-the-problem-of-religious-rivalry-9780199772865","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}