The immanent divine : God, creation, and the human predicament /
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| Author / Creator: | Thatamanil, John J. |
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| Imprint: | Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2006. |
| Description: | xxi, 231 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6120770 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Immanent Divine and the Human Predicament
- How Far Is East from West? A Question for Comparative Theology
- Why Sankara, Why Tillich?
- A Method for Comparison: On the Idea of Comparative Categories
- The Human Predicament as Illness: The Medical Model as a Tool for Comparison
- Disputed Theological Questions: What Is at Stake in the Conversation?
- Is a Christian Nondualism Possible?
- Comparative Theology as Interfaith Dialogue in Search of Mutual Transformation
- A Concluding Note on the Term Immanence
- 2. Sankara on the Human Predicament: Diagnosis and Etiology
- "The Hindu Refuses to Call You Sinners": Opening the Question of the Human Predicament in Advaita Vedanta
- Sankara's Anthropology: The Soul as Free Agent and Part of Brahman
- Sankara's Diagnosis of the Human Predicament: The Suffering of Samsara
- Sankara's Etiology of the Human Predicament
- The Impossible Possibility of Ignorance
- 3. Sankara on Liberation from the Human Predicament: Prognosis and Therapy
- Is Healing Available Premortem or Only Postmortem?
- Knowing and Not Knowing Brahman: On Why Sankara Is Not a Mystic
- Sankara on Therapy: Preparing for and Becoming Established in Liberating Knowledge
- Sankara's Prognosis: On the Liberated Person and the Possibility of Action after Liberation
- Immanence and Transcendence in Sankara's Theology: On Apophatic Anthropology
- 4. Tillich on the Human Predicament: Diagnosis and Etiology
- Priming the Comparative Pump: Where Do We Begin?
- Preliminary Reflections on Courage: Arjuna's Courage and the Courage of Faith
- Introducing Tillich's Ontological Apparatus
- Ontology and the Human Predicament: Tillich's Etiology
- Tillich's Diagnosis of the Human Predicament
- 5. Tillich on Salvation as Ecstatic Healing: Prognosis and Therapy
- Ecstasy and Nonduality
- Transcendence and Immanence in Tillich's Theology
- God as Living; God as Spirit
- Tillich on Therapy: Salvation as Ecstatic Healing
- Tillich's Prognosis: Sanctification, Doubt, and the Ineradicable Fact of Estrangement
- 6. Reimagining Immanence: Toward a Christian Nondualism
- Moving from Comparison to Construction
- Diagnosis: The Human Predicament as Self-Enclosed Finitude
- Comparing Etiologies
- Comparing Prognoses: Liberation and Salvation
- Evaluating the Medical Model
- Toward a Dynamic Apophatic Nondualism
- The Religious Possibilities Offered by Dynamic Nondualism
- Apophasis, Ecstasy, and Divine Immutability
- On the Coincidence between Immanence and Transcendence
- Glossary
- Index
