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Michelle Vo Roberts - Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection - 9780823274666 - V9780823274666
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Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection

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Description for Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection Hardback. Editor(s): Roberts, Michelle Voss. Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HRAC; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 157 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.

Every generation of theologians must respond to its context by rearticulating the central tenets of the faith. Interreligious comparison has been integral to this process from the start of the Christian tradition and is especially salient today. The emerging field of comparative theology, in which close study of another religious tradition yields new questions and categories for theological reflection in the scholar’s home tradition, embodies the ecumenical spirit of this moment. This discipline has the potential to enrich systematic theology and, by extension, theological education, at its foundations.
The essays in Comparing Faithfully demonstrate that engagement with religious diversity ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823274666
SKU
V9780823274666
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About Michelle Vo Roberts
Michelle Voss Roberts is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of Theology at Wake Forest University School of Divinity. Her most recent book, Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion (Fordham, 2014), received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence in Constructive/Reflective Studies.

Reviews for Comparing Faithfully: Insights for Systematic Theological Reflection
"Advances the burgeoning field of comparative theology. Voss Roberts hones in on how theologians read closely and respectfully the texts and ideas of other traditions, making themselves vulnerable to their insights; and consider whether rational accounts of their own faith could be substantively enriched by encounters with those others, without cannibalizing or appropriating them."
-James W. Farwell Virginia Theological ... Read more

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