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Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

A Love Story

By: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

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Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

A Love Story

By: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

This autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical, lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism, as professor and Catholic priest, and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now, in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian and Hindu, is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments, as well as in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner. What Clooney has learnt and written must be understood in terms of a love of Christ deeply informed by a Hindu instinct for loving God without reserve. A fundamental spiritual disposition - intuitions of God present everywhere - has energized his work over his long career, love giving direction and body to his professional academic work.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567710262

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Seeing through Texts

Doing Theology among the Śrivaiṣṇavas of South India

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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Doing Theology among the Śrivaiṣṇavas of South India

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

These unique songs, dedicated to the Hindu god Visnu/Krsna, lead us through poetic and imaginative, philosophical and moral reflections on the nature of the self and the world, ancient myths and temple worship, and the mystical moods of longing, desire, and love in which one seeks, loses, and finds again the God who loves us first.

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SUNY Press

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0791429954

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Hindu God, Christian God

How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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Hindu God, Christian God

How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

This volume offers an in-depth study of key themes common to the Hindu and Christian religious traditions. It redefines how we think about Hinduism, comparative study, and Christian theology. This book offers a bold new look at how traditions encounter one another, and how good comparisons are to be made. Redefining theology as an interreligious, comparative, dialogical, and confessional practice open to all people, it invites not only Hindus and Christians, but also theologians from all religious traditions, to enter into conversation with one another.

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Oxford University Press

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0199738726

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Hindu God, Christian God

How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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How Reason Helps Break Down the Boundaries Between Religions

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Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

A Love Story

By: Francis X. Clooney, S.J.

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A Love Story

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567710254

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Beyond Compare

St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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 Śrī Vedānta Deśika and Treatise on the Love of God by St. Francis de Sales. In his commentary, Clooney achieves multiple goals--the book is a contribution to Christian spiritual theology, highlighting for today the beautiful insights into love by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1623), Doctor of the Church. At the same time it points out how even in our world of many religious paths, we can recover and deepen the ancient tradition of loving surrender into God's hands by opening ourselves to the wisdom of India and one of Hindu India's most famous traditions of loving God, explained to us by the south Indian Hindu theologian Śrī Vedānta Deśika (1268-1369). Clooney goes further, offering a comparative study of these classic works in which he self-consciously writes about the process of reading the two works and the impact this approach has on the reader. The good advice found through this deep engagement with these texts offers a deeper insight into how we can most fruitfully and spiritually think about religious pluralism in the 21st century, remaining open in heart and mind while loyal still to our own tradition. Not merely a book about loving surrender to God, Beyond Compare offers us the opportunity to advance along that path ourselves, learning from the wisdom of St. Francis de Sales and Śrī Vedānta Deśika, meditating on their two paths together, deepening our own love and willingness to surrender in love to God.

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1589012119

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European Perspectives on the New Comparative Theology

By: Francis X. Clooney,John Berthrong

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European Perspectives on the New Comparative Theology

By: Francis X. Clooney,John Berthrong

Printed Edition of the Special Issue Published in Religions, with a Summary by Perry Schmidt-Leukel

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MDPI

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3906980448

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Seeing through Texts

Doing Theology among the Śrivaiṣṇavas of South India

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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Doing Theology among the Śrivaiṣṇavas of South India

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Learning Interreligiously

In the Text, in the World

By: Francis X. Clooney SJ

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Learning Interreligiously

In the Text, in the World

By: Francis X. Clooney SJ

Learning Interreligiously offers a series of about one hundred short pieces, written online between 2008 and 2016. They are meant for a wide range of readers interested in interreligious dialogue, interreligious learning, and the realities of Hindu-Christian encounter today, and are rich in insights drawn from teaching, travels in America and India, and the author’s research on sacred texts. The author, a Catholic priest who has spent more than forty years learning from Hinduism and observing religion as a plus and minus in today’s world, has much to share with readers. Some pieces were prompted by items in the news, some go deeper into traditions and probe the rich Scriptures and practices going back millennia, some seek simply to provoke fresh thinking, and others invite spiritual reflection. The book is divided into several parts so that readers can focus on individual events that made the news or on longer term and more concerted study. Familiar texts such as the Yoga Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita, the Qur’an, and key passages from the New Testament will be considered for their spiritual possibilities. Readers will find much here to learn from and respond to as they too consider religion in today’s world.

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Fortress Press

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1506440134

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Beyond Compare

St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God

By: Francis Xavier Clooney

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 r Ved nta De ika and "Treatise on the Love of God" by St. Francis de Sales. In his commentary, Clooney achieves multiple goals -- the book is a contribution to Christian spiritual theology, highlighting for today the beautiful insights into love by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1623), Doctor of the Church. At the same time it points out how even in our world of many religious paths, we can recover and deepen the ancient tradition of loving surrender into God's hands by opening ourselves to the wisdom of India and one of Hindu India's most famous traditions of loving God, explained to us by the south Indian Hindu theologian r Ved nta De ika (1268-1369). Clooney goes further, offering a comparative study of these classic works in which he self-consciously writes about the process of reading the two works and the impact this approach has on the reader. The good advice found through this deep engagement with these texts offers a deeper insight into how we can most fruitfully and spiritually think about religious pluralism in the 21st century, remaining open in heart and mind while loyal still to our own tradition. Not merely a book "about" loving surrender to God, "Beyond Compare" offers us the opportunity to advance along that path ourselves, learning from the wisdom of St. Francis de Sales and r Ved nta De ika, meditating on their two paths together, deepening our own love and willingness to surrender in love to God.

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Book's by Francis Xavier Clooney

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

Seeing through Texts

Seeing through Texts

Hindu God, Christian God

Hindu God, Christian God

Hindu God, Christian God

Hindu God, Christian God

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

European Perspectives on the New Comparative Theology

European Perspectives on the New Comparative Theology

Seeing through Texts

Seeing through Texts

Learning Interreligiously

Learning Interreligiously

Beyond Compare

Beyond Compare

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