Comparative Theology Among Multiple Modernities - Cultivating Phenomenological Imagination

This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Comparative Theologies and Multiple Modernities.- 2. Comparative Theology, Religious Discourse, and Phenomenological Imagination.- 3. Comparative Theology of Justification and Interreligious Learning: Martin Luther and Shinran Shonin.- 4. Totaliter Aliter, God's Mission, The Postcolonial.- 5. Barth and Relational Theology.- 6. Phenomenological Elucidation: Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas.- 7. Theological Audacity, Analogical Relationality, and Religion.- 8. Barth, Comparative Theology, and Multiple Modernities.- 9. Ernst Troeltsch, Historical Method, and Comparative Theology.- 10. Comparative Theology and Interreligious Solidarity Ethic: A Critical Appraisal of Max Weber.- 11. Religious Discourse, Power Relations, and Interreligious Illumination.- 12. Confucian Moral, Phenomenology of Saying, and Multiple Modernities.- 13. Epilogue.

About the author

Paul S. Chung teaches at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, USA. His is the author of Postcolonial Imagination: Archaeological Hermeneutics and Comparative Religious Theology (2014) and Karl Barth: God’s Word in Action (2008).

Summary

This book presents a heuristic and critical study of comparative theology in engagement with phenomenological methodology and sociological inquiry. It elucidates a postcolonial study of religion in the context of multiple modernities.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Chung, Paul S Chung, Paul S. Chung
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9783319581958
• ISBN: 978-3-31-958195-8
• No. of pages: 329
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 216 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 535 g
• Illustrations: XII, 329 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; B, Sociology of Religion, Phenomenology, Theology, Christian theology, Religion & beliefs, auseinandersetzen, Sociology & anthropology, Religion and Philosophy, Religion and sociology, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Clooney;Husserl;Geertz;Troeltsch;barth