UID:
edoccha_9960005037402883
Format:
1 online resource (269 pages).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-429-67154-7
,
0-429-00097-9
,
0-429-67303-5
Series Statement:
Routledge new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
Content:
"Thinking about ultimate reality is becoming increasingly transreligious. This transreligious turn follows inevitably from the discovery of divine truths in multiple traditions. Global communications bring the full range of religious ideas and practices to anyone with access to the internet. Moreover, the growth of the "nones" and those who describe themselves as "spiritual but not religious" creates a pressing need for theological thinking not bound by prescribed doctrines and fixed rituals. This book responds to this vital need. The chapters in this volume each examine the claim that if the aim of theology is to know and articulate all we can about the divine reality, and if revelations, enlightenments, and insights into that reality are not limited to a single tradition, then what is called for is a theology without confessional restrictions. In other words, a Theology Without Walls. To ground the project in examples, the volume provides emerging models of transreligious inquiry. It also includes sympathetic critics who raise valid concerns that such a theology must face. This is a book that will be of urgent interest to theologians, religious studies scholars, and philosophers of religion. It will be especially suitable for those interested in comparative theology, inter-religious and interfaith understanding, new trends in constructive theology, normative religious studies, and global philosophy of religion"--
Note:
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Why Theology Without Walls? -- Introduction -- 1 Paideias and programs for Theology Without Walls -- 2 In spirit and truth: Toward a Theology Without Walls -- 3 Revisiting Bellah's Sheila in a religiously pluralist century -- 4 Theology Without Walls as open-field theology -- Part II Experience and transformation -- Introduction -- 5 Theology Without Walls as the quest for interreligious wisdom -- 6 My Buddha-nature and my Christ-nature -- 7 "Why not ten 60-foot wells?" -- 8 Theology Without Walls: an interspiritual approach -- 9 With open doors and windows: doing theology in the spirit of William James -- Part III Challenges and possibilities -- Introduction -- 10 Is Theology Without Walls workable? Yes, no, maybe -- 11 Daunting choices in transreligious theology: a case study -- 12 Cognitive science of religion and the nature of the divine: a pluralist, nonconfessional approach -- 13 Love and desire, human and divine: a transreligious naturalist account -- Part IV Theologizing in a multireligious world -- Introduction -- 14 Dialogue and transreligious understanding: a hermeneutical approach -- 15 Strategic religious participation in a shared religious landscape: a model for Westerners? -- 16 How to think globally and affiliate locally -- 17 Theology Without Walls: Is a theology for SBNRs possible? -- Part V Expanded confessional theologies -- Introduction -- 18 More window than wall: the comparative expansion of confessional theology -- 19 Strong walls for an open faith -- 20 A Hinduism without walls? Exploring the concept of the avatar interreligiously -- 21 My path to a theology of Qi -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-367-02871-9
Language:
English
