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Theology Today: Comparative Theology as a Catholic Theological Approach

open access: yesTheological Studies, 2015
Comparative theology is a relatively novel theological approach that revolves around a practice of comparative reading of authoritative religious documents. The International Theological Commission's Theology Today: Perspectives, Principles and Criteria (
Marianne Moyaert
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A Theology of the Religions and/or a Comparative Theology?

Horizons, 1999
AbstractAn important but little-noticed debate is quietly going on between some theologians of the religions and some comparative theologians. The former, without negating the need for comparative theology, insist on the need for a theology of the religions; the latter call for a moratorium on construction of theologies of religion and a focus instead ...
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Atonement and Comparative Theology

2021
The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. In Atonement and Comparative Theology, Christian theologians with expertise in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and African religions reflect on how engagement with these ...
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Sakta Method for Comparative Theology

2023
A Sakta Method for Comparative Theology: Upside-Down, Inside-Out offers a Sakta thealogy of religions and a Sakta anti-method, method, and a-method for comparative theology. For Saktas, the thread of religious diversity is part of the rich tapestry of cosmological, topographical, environmental, and bio-diversity, which is the Goddess’ collective (sama??
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Comparative Theology after “Religion”

2010
This chapter employs genealogy of religion, critical race theory, and Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka Buddhism to call into question the way in which uninterrogated notions about “religion” and “religions” compromise theologies of religious diversity. At the heart of the argument is the claim that both the categories “religions” and “races” were invented to ...
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Comparative Theology

2007
This chapter focuses on comparative theology, a form of tradition-grounded theological practice that learns deeply and effectively from other religious traditions. Even solidly textual work—translations, the study of scholastic systems, the tracing of lines of thought in commentaries, the decipherment of ritual and moral codes—proceeds as ...
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Comparative Theology as Fundamental Theology

Theological Studies
This article traces the development of a tension between the missionary theology of Ad Gentes and Nostra Aetate ’s incipient theology of religions through a period of intermediate curial debate toward a resolution expressed in the magisterial teachings ...
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Comparative Theology as a Pilgrimage

Toronto Journal of Theology, 2023
[Figure: see text] This article is the last in a series that discuss the importance of the notion of “home” in comparative theology. It discusses the ambiguity of identifying a religious tradition as home and focuses on the notion's epistemological, ontological, and experiential aspects.
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Muslima Theology as Comparative Feminist Theology

2018
AbstractThis chapter focuses on Muslima theology and outlines its unique combination of constructive, theological, and comparative lenses. It situates Muslima theology within the larger method of comparative theology, and argues for the suitability of this method due to its requirement of deep knowledge of other traditions, its capacity to foster ...
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