Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection
Michelle Voss Roberts
Abstract
In recent decades, comparative theology has emerged as a method of thinking as an adherent to a particular religious tradition, through deep and focused conversation with another tradition. This discipline has the potential to enrich Christian systematic theology and, by extension, theological education, at its foundations. For this purpose, Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection reconsiders five central areas of Christian doctrinal reflection in light of focused interreligious readings, as a resource for pastors and theology students. The dialogical format of the ... More
In recent decades, comparative theology has emerged as a method of thinking as an adherent to a particular religious tradition, through deep and focused conversation with another tradition. This discipline has the potential to enrich Christian systematic theology and, by extension, theological education, at its foundations. For this purpose, Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection reconsiders five central areas of Christian doctrinal reflection in light of focused interreligious readings, as a resource for pastors and theology students. The dialogical format of the book creates conversations about the doctrine of God, theodicy, humanity, Christology, and soteriology. The comparative essays span examples from Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Muslim, Jain, and Confucian traditions, Aztec theology, and contemporary “spiritual but not religious” thought, to offer exciting new perspectives on Christian doctrine.
Keywords:
Christology,
comparative theology,
constructive theology,
doctrine of God,
interreligious dialogue,
pluralism,
soteriology,
systematic theology,
theodicy,
theological anthropology
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780823274666 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: May 2017 |
DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823274666.001.0001 |
