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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.
