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Aaron 159, 222
abandonment, of samsara for nirvana 336
Abdülfettah Efendi 554
Abel, blood of 116
Abhinavagupta 437
abiding in samsara 337, 341, 344–6
Abishiktananda, Swami 102, 533
abortion 369, 372
ethics of 371, 379–80
immorality of 379
Abraham 13, 94, 96–7, 157–8, 222, 236–40, 258, 260, 262
figure of authentication 240
friend of God 261
God of 208, 481
heirs of 238
Abraham, Susan 271
Abrahamic calligraphy projects 558
plurality 231, 241, 243
religions 18, 96, 237, 320, 478n, 482
theology 231, 244, 268
tradition 482
abrogation 116
academic discipline 404
institutional support 318
milieu 36, 326, 596
accommodation 449
accountability 9, 420, 565
dual 507
revised perspective 510
activism 301
actualization 179, 182–3
Adam 235, 258, 262, 382
Adam – Israel 236
being tested 259–60
Job as “new Adam” 252
adaptation 33, 35
adherernce 104
Adoptianism 145
Advaita Hinduism 91, 315
nondualism 291
Vedanta 58, 320, 324
aesthetic 207, 277
comparing representations 507
affiliation 505, 513
Africa 33, 201
African Traditional Religions 20
agapē 346, 403–4
agency, divine and human 13, 205, 207–8
aggadah 132–3, 242
Agus, Jacob 93
Akiva, rabbi 11, 132, 134–5, 139–40, 142, 144, 182
Alexander VII, Pope 450
Allah 553
allegory 217–8
von Allmen, Jean-Jacques 459
altruism 17, 388–9, 391–2, 394–5, 398, 400
ambiguity 120, 153, 168, 382
America, study of religion in 313
American Academy of Religion 10, 19, 22, 188n, 419, 490, 524
Catholicism 368–9
culture 316
Amida 64, 104
Amidah prayer 179, 181
Aminadav 159
Am Yisrael (People of Israel) 177
analogy 203, 204, 435, 441
better points of 513
of beauty 42
of truth 42
analogous discourse 202, 204
anātman (no-self) 391
Anawati, Georges, OP 5, 23, 91, 95, 98–101, 204
ancestors 455
sacrifices to 447
ancestral rites 18, 447–8, 454–7
tablet 455, 457
ancilla theologiae 332
angels 223, 259
anger, against oppressors 351, 356
Anglican tradition 423, 549
animal sacrifices 476, 480–3
“shelters” 482
animality and imprisonment 482
animistic 471
anointing of Jesus 331, 338
head / feet 342
royal / burial 343
anthropocentrism 251, 402, 483
anthropology 16, 296, 411, 416
Buddhist 351–3
prenatal 378–9, 384
theological 369, 379, 381
anthropomorphism 443
Antichrist 217
anti-imperialist impulse 86
anti-Judaism 118, 187
Christian 111, 115, 126, 129, 171, 189
history of 11
anti-Semitism 94, 103n, 111, 118
apatheia 396
apocalyptic discourse 333
hopes 224
ideas 215, 225
motifs 213
qurʾānic resistance 220, 223, 227
scriptures 215, 217
thinking 13, 212–8
urge 227
Apocrypha 127, 150, 436
apologetic approach 8, 583
purpose 4, 59–60, 65–66
apologetics 50, 55, 58, 76, 96, 117
intra-Christian 65
apology 376
apophaticism 201, 430, 434–5, 578
apostolic ministry 200
Apostles 240
appropriation 171, 242, 349, 360, 364, 573, 589
apratiṣṭhita-nirvana (non-abiding in nirvana) 337
apriorism 81
Aquinas see Thomas Aquinas
Arabic 551
study of 99
argument 31–32, 202
Aristotle 101, 378n, 436, 441, 549
Arjuna 322–3
Armageddon 213
Artscroll Siddur 177n, 180
Asad, Talal 70n, 85
asceticism 58, 287, 402
Ashkenazi 180
ashram 39, 102, 492
Asia 201
East 358, 435, 437, 539
hybrid religiosity 21, 538–9, 541
South 281, 435–6
West 435
Asian liberation theology 276, 364
religions 37n, 312, 468
scholars 10
theologians 414, 538
Aśvaghoṣa 369
asymmetry, in relations 84, 113–4, 304, 440, 575
athar (trace) 550
atheism 103, 307
Atisha 394
Atman 436
ātmārtha (for the sake of one’s self) 390
atonement 147, 593
attentiveness 41, 512
Augustine 378, 382, 412, 425, 441, 498
AUM 553, 559
Australasia 46
authenticity 527
authority, religious 99, 499
authorship 156, 248
Awad, Najib 528
Awakening Mind 336, 338–9
as practice 344–5
awareness, embodied 351–2
de-reifying 357, 359
of oppressive systems 360
primordial 352
awe 141
axial age 491
Ayyūb 247, 256–63
monotheism 262
patience 260
submission 263
tested by God 259
Baatz, Ursula 539
Babylon 178
Badaliya 97
Badham, Paul 57n, 63n
Bahá’í Faith 553, 558
Baker, Christopher 272
Balthasar, Hans Urs von 91, 103, 498
Bangladesh 203, 207
banim / banot 154
baptism 145, 378–82
Barnes, Michael, SJ 45
Barth, Karl 20, 73–4, 77–9, 85, 424, 429, 570
Barua, Ankur 319
basar (bodyperson) 416
basmala 554
Baur, Ferdinand Christian 186–7
de Beaureceuil, Serge, OP 98
beauty 42, 207, 283n, 294, 549
Behemoth 250–2
Believer’s Movement 232, 239
Benedict XIV, Pope 451
Benedict XVI, Pope 44, 152, 166, 412–5
Bengal 282, 314
Benjamin, Walter 224
Benson, Edward White 56
Berghuijs, Joantine 534
Bergunder, Michael 587
Bernhardt, Reinhold 61n, 531n
Bernstein, Rabbi Ellen 187–8
Berry, Thomas 419
Berthrong, John 534
Bethany 331–2, 338, 344
Bethlehem 203, 342
Bhabha, Homi 272
Bhagavad Gītā 322, 497
Bhāgavata Purāṇa 315, 320, 322
bhakti 270, 314, 429, 558
bhūmi 336
Bible 14, 75, 90–1, 120
apocalyptic heritage 214, 225
God of 96
and Qurʾān 239, 259–60
study of 57, 185
biblical criticism 59
interpretation 150–1, 441
scholarship 239
Bidlack, Bede Benjamin 2, 7n, 9, 17, 45
al-Biqāʿī, Ibrahim b. ʿOmar 260
birkat ha’aretz 175–9, 181–3, 189
birkat hamazon 12, 170–1, 174–5, 180–3, 188–9
Bleeker, C.J. 83
blessings 170, 179, 193
“blood contracts” 476
rituals 482
Bloomer, Kristen 303
bodhicaryāvatāra 17, 332–7, 388
bodhicitta (awakening mind) 334–5, 338, 340, 344–5
bodhisattva 368, 375, 393, 395
develops altruism 390
being on path to awakening 334
mutual benefit with other beings 400
embodiment of wisdom perfected by compassion 332
bodhisattva practice 16, 331–2, 334, 338, 341, 346
abiding of 340
perfection of 358, 364
body, in comparative theology 15, 20, 294, 309, 476, 522, 553
Body of Christ, incorporation into 381
Boehme, Jacob 435
Bonei Yerushalayim 178–9
Book of blessings 172
border crossing 200–1, 525
Bornet, Philippe 587
Borrmans, Maurice 99n, 100n
Boston College 17, 420, 422
Boston University 17–18, 409, 419–20, 432
boundaries 149, 540
soft / blurred 540
thinking across 325, 462
traversing 148
Boyarin, D. 119n, 140n
van der Braak, André 21, 535–6, 540–1
Brague, Rémi 237
Brahman 436
Brahmanism 62, 84
Brahminical traditions 275, 289
Brahmins and Jesuits 325, 364n
Brecht, Mara 46n
Brede Kristensen, William 77, 79
Brenner, Ataliyah 152–3
Brettler, Marc 152
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad 287
bridge builders 104
bridging traditions 318
Bride / Bridegroom 163–65
broadening of horizons 207
Brooke, John H. 325
Brown, Karen McCarty 198
Brunner, Emil 73, 85
Buber, Martin 353
Buddha 63, 104, 334, 337, 394
buddha nature 352, 357, 400
life of the buddha 369
Buddhism 2, 40, 56, 58, 63, 65, 75, 102, 288, 446–7, 558
Chinese 422
early Indian 371
engaged 362
Indo-Tibetan 352
Buddhist epistemology 356
hermeneutic 332, 338–40, 342–6
metaphysics 401
philosophy 334
teachings as guide 331
temples 369, 410
traditions 507, 536
understandings 350
Buddhist – Christian dual belonging 535–40
Buddhists 304, 558
Chinese 340
bureaucratic universe 473
Burrell, David, CSC 1n, 12, 23, 45, 100n, 197–209
Thomistic roots 205
Busch, Eberhard 74
Byzantine Empire 215, 221, 227
Cabezón, José Ignacio 568–9
Caesarea Philippi 333, 339
Cain, mark of 116
Cairo 203, 207
Calcutta 37–38
calligraphy 22, 550, 555
Jewish and Islamic 548
interreligiously created 558
calling 133
Camino de Santiago 295, 301–2
canon 500
Christian 186
capita de caritate 395
de las Casas, Bartolomeo 34
Caspar, Robert 98, 100–1
caste 271, 282, 364
categories 101
Catholic Church 5
doctrine 33
magisterium 379
minority 289
orientalism 33
Scripture and tradition 411
social teaching 198
theology, deductive nature of 411
Catholic-Hindu encounter, history of 282
Catholicism 54, 281n
causality, Buddhist axiom 394
Celestial Masters 476
Center for the Study of World Religions (Harvard University) 18, 419
Chakravarti, Ananya 34
Chalcedon, Council of 143, 146, 400
Chander, Vineet 558n
Chapters on Love 17, 389
Charedi Jews 181
charity 96
Chau, Adam 540
Cheetham, David 60n
Cheng, Patrick 143–44n
Chenu, Marie-Dominique, OP 91, 98
cherubim 139
Chidester, David 85
child loss 379
Chilton, Bruce 399
China 33, 451, 539
Chinese (language) 335, 409, 415–6
Chinese philosophical framework 412, 416, 438, 495
Chinese religion 2, 17–18, 409, 422, 438
complexity of 410
identity 410
imperial 475
popular 446, 475
religious identity 410, 416
rites controversy 18, 447–52
Chi-Rho Christogram 554
Chouraqui, André 94
Christ
Body of 144, 147–8
death of 116
fulfilment of covenant 167
glorification of 399
incarnated 403
muslim 95
two natures of 142
two operations of 400
remembrance of 459
return of 221
resurrection of 346, 399
son of Jews 165
suffering of 593
unity with 143
victim / victor 398
two wills of 400, 403
Christian bias 426
dominance 269
engagement with Islam 94
engagement with Judaism, singular nature of 94, 111
identity, relational character of 570
inculturation, providential 574
superiority claims 40, 53, 56, 61, 65, 72, 76
supersessionism 574–5
supremacy 270, 296–7, 565
theology 1, 56, 315, 534
universalism 72, 76
Christian – Buddhist dual belonging 534
Christian – Jewish relations 193
history of 116–7, 126
study of 118
uniqueness of 125, 171
Christianity 75, 214
absoluteness of 74
in Asian categories 496
Catholic 83, 187
role in comparative theology 10, 14, 56, 419, 478–9, 537, 563
early 93, 119, 186, 458
Eastern 400
Evangelical 52, 61
global 198, 563
Jewish origins of 118–9, 189
Latin 400
Orthodox 46, 403, 548, 552
Pauline / Petrine 186–7
Protestant 18, 46, 53, 187
sources of 90
superiority of 583
syncretic nature of 62
Syriac 92
as true religion 60
uniqueness of 120
Christological basis 397
claims 132
positions 146
Christology 13, 16, 120, 128–9, 144, 148, 398, 411
and discipleship 333
in Mark 331
normative 146
orthodox 146
transformative 217
Church, as bride 157
Fathers 90, 167, 254
Gentile 165
inculturation of 32
and Israel 120, 165–6
separated from revelation 412
vehicle of salvation / broken vessel 423
chūu (intermediate state) 374
circle-amulet 555
circumcision 177
citta (consciousness / mind) 314
civilization 53
Clarke, James F. 36, 71–72
classics 519
Clayton, Philip 498
clinging to the self 391, 393
Clooney, Francis X., SJ 1n, 3–4, 6, 14, 18, 23, 50, 69, 71, 81, 83, 101, 112, 171, 189, 269–70, 273, 299n, 303, 313, 318, 320, 322–6, 414n, 419, 422–3, 426, 429, 431, 444, 462, 468n, 493, 505n, 506, 520, 548, 576, 578
Clothey, Fred 269, 270, 275
Cobb, John 498, 598
Coe, Shoki 461
coexistence 54
Cogliati, Carlo 208
Cohn, Avraham 557
Collins Winn, Christian T. 20
colonialism 3–4, 51–2, 243, 282, 292, 297, 304, 317, 479, 509
“coming back” 13, 200, 304
commandments 141, 480
commentaries, classical 122, 157
medieval 157
Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews 112n
commitment 42, 111, 432
common ethical norms 491
ground 317
communal resonance 510
communion 322
communitas 307
community 122, 200, 292, 307, 326
companionship 206, 295
comparative
categories 18, 410, 426–7, 430, 493, 586–7
interchange 325
learning, Buddhist-Christian 359–65
method, defense of 586
philosophy 419
reasoning 322
religion 4, 50–1, 55, 71, 312, 314, 421, 583
and comparative theology 65, 324
scriptural studies 14
studies, Jewish – Hindu 2n
study of religion 69, 290, 388, 412, 463, 479, 584–6, 588
theological inquiry 427–8
Comparative Religious Ideas Project 419, 422, 426, 493
comparative theology
academic approaches 3, 55, 69
aesthetic approach 43
after religion 85
approaches in 9, 17, 420
autobiographical character 577
of bloodlessness 483
and boundaries of Christian identity 572
Catholic 17, 44, 230, 274
Catholic roots 31, 280
in Chinese context 409, 412
choice in 576, 588, 592
Christian 2, 55, 563
Christian – Confucian 448, 452
Christian – Muslim 96
more than cognitive 584
communal 294–5, 594
as comparison of theologies 72
more than comparison of theologies 584
confessional approach 6, 9, 19–20, 70, 205, 212, 230, 232, 241, 243, 409, 411, 414, 416, 421, 506, 563, 585, 591, 601
as constructive systematic theology 121, 411, 414, 569, 589
contemporary 1–2, 7
contextual 460
contribution to Christian theology 208
controversy on 44
Daoist 18, 409, 467, 482
as decolonial theology 590
deep immersion in other tradition 421–2
definition of 6, 69
denominational dimension 81n, 423
recognizes difference 571
from perspective of hybridity or dual belonging 599
embodied 15, 294, 300–1, 483
ethical concern 299
ethnographic method 301, 303
evaluative judgments 209
based on experiences 274, 281, 302–3
faith seeking understanding 423
female interlocutors 302
feminist 21, 277, 297, 297, 302, 505, 509–13
as field of theological studies 5, 207
first step of 212
choosing focus for comparison 592–3
forerunner of 97
founded on friendship 201
future of 1, 4, 19
role of gender 271
goals of 508–9, 511, 573, 584, 588
hegemony in 574
Hindu 15, 290, 292, 312, 318
Hindu – Christian 269–70, 287, 297
history of 1–3, 36, 55, 57, 61–63, 274
potential inhospitalities 270, 304
intellectual history 429
interreligious 7, 13, 84, 122, 205, 576, 597–600
intersectional potential 576
intra-religious 317
danger of irrelevance 276–7
Islamic 13, 230, 241–44
Jewish – Christian – Muslim 197
Judaism underrepresented 112
advocates for justice 299
learning in 285, 349, 359, 403, 588–9
of liberation 483
liturgical 524
mediates religious heterogeneity 462
“meta-confessional” approach 70, 205, 409–11, 585, 596
methods in 2, 5–6, 13, 81, 296, 298, 300–1
motivation 600
of music 22
Muslima 20–21
mutually beneficial sharing 404
nature of 419
new 50, 59, 65, 81, 508, 585
normative statements in 299, 594
normative character 506, 571, 584, 589
central objective of 508
old 7, 50, 56, 61, 65, 71, 232, 243, 585
with and for others 295
parity, no assumptions of 513
performative model 83
aligned with philosophy of religion 589
of pilgrimage 294, 300, 309
postmodernist approach to study of religion 571
of practices 20, 230
Protestant approach 17, 412
as public theology 212
of religious diversity 496
as re-reading one’s own tradition 125, 288, 332
role of reason 520
ritual turn 21
scientific model 83
scholarly / spiritual approach 517
subject matter approach 426, 444
systematic ambition 431, 569, 589
tentative conclusions 578–9
text centric 274, 325, 428, 517–8
and theology of religions 425, 432, 506, 591
transreligious 7, 9, 19, 205, 496, 595
aims at truth 429, 594
value of 323
Comparative Theology Society 419
comparative violence 125
comparing ideas, not traditions 428, 463
comparison, modes of
analogical / genealogical 587
cross-cultural 571–2
illuminative / taxonomic 587–8
“weak” vs “strong” 70
distortions and comparisons 126–7
compassion 402
instead of anger 356
Buddhist 350, 388, 391, 395
practice of 16, 332, 334–7, 345–6
compatibility
Buddhist and Christian doctrines 537, 599
of Qurʾān with Christianity 242
of perfect divine love with human love 403
competency, development of 506–7, 509, 512
complementarity 537
complexity, of other traditions 121
comprehensiveness, perspectival 431
Comte, Auguste 389
conceptual category 452
Cone, James 143n
confessionalism 424, 496
confluence of matter and method 298
Confucian 432, 449
classics 452
philosophy 454
ritual propriety 462
Confucianism 18, 402, 410, 412, 419, 422, 430, 437–9, 442–3, 446–7, 478, 497
Confucius 455
rite of 448
Congar, Yves, OP 91
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 17, 44, 379
Congregation of the Holy Cross 197, 199
consciousness 436
consessionism, practice of 120
Constantinople, Council of 146n, 400
contemplation 364
perfection of 389
contemplative life 101
practice 357, 360, 365
context 411
historical-cultural 122
contextual interpretation 454
contextualization 461
contraception 380
conversation, interfaith 557–8
conversion 202, 216, 468
Copeland, Shawn 359
Corinthians, letters to the 147n, 185
Cornille, Catherine 1n, 6, 16, 23, 45, 70n, 81n, 102n, 205, 230, 364–5, 409, 421–4, 426, 429, 431, 519n, 536, 538, 573, 576
cosmogony 470, 474
cosmology 470
counterpoint 326
covenant 111, 116, 118, 120, 129, 133, 151, 166–7, 177, 188, 231, 250, 256, 479
with Adam and Israel 235
Ark of the 139, 215
breaking of 236
universal 236
creation 13–4, 133, 204, 208, 247, 249–52, 258, 285, 380
goodness of 442
models of 433
qurʾānic theology of 221
renewal of 205
Creed, Nicene 146
critical race theory 84
self-consciousness 590
criticism 420, 491
cross, inseparable from discipleship 333, 339
message of 220, 398–9
theology of 331
cross-reading 126, 517, 523
cross-religious comparison 493
cross-riting 524
crucifix, San Damiano 552–3
crucifixion 97, 458
crusades 305
cultural anthropologists 522
culture
local 35
Western 35
Cunningham, Philip 170, 173, 183, 187
Cyril of Alexandria 143n
Dabru Emet 111n, 117
Dahl, Nils A. 341
al-da’irat al-Shadhiliya (Shadhili circle) 554–5
Dalai Lama 346, 490
Dalit Christians 271, 275, 289
Dandoy, Georges 38
Daniel, Book of 213
Daniélou, Jean, SJ 5, 90–4
Dao 434, 437, 439, 443, 456, 469, 470
manifestations of 470
Daode jing 439, 472
Daoism 18, 410, 422, 438, 446–7, 497
classical 469
organized 469n, 472, 477
Daoist emanationist cosmogony 471
hermeneutics of the body 414
pantheon 473, 476
ritual 476
scholar-practitioner 468
studies 467
temple 410
theology 469, 471
daoqi (sacred presence of Dao) 470
daoshi (Daoist priest) 468
darśana (philosophy) 287, 314
David (King / Prophet) 258
failed but repented 260
kingship downplayed 219
used as prototype 215
son of 333
successor of 343
vicegerent of God 222
Davidic messiah 342
Day, Dorothy 359, 363
Dayam, Joseph Prabhakar 539
D’Costa, Gavin 8n, 98n, 540–1
debate 144
Declaration on Procured Abortion 379–80
decolonization of theology 412, 479
De Cruz, Helen 498
deep dialogue 492
encounters 304
immersion 496
knowledge 512
learning 287–8, 425, 527–8
defamiliarization 479
de-Hellenization 413–5
deicide 116, 118
deities 473, 482
place in universe 472
Dei Verbum 416
deluded habit 355
Denny, Christopher 490, 498
dependent co-arising 400–1
de-reifying analysis 359
Derrida, Jacques 483
Descartes, René 442
Descuffi, Giuseppe 98
destabilization 508
Deuteronomy 138, 173–5, 480
devoted servants of God 260–1
devotion 141, 187
devotional practices 297, 358
Dewey, Joanna 343
dhikra (lesson) 256, 261, 263
Dhu’l Kifl 260
dhyānapāramitā 389
Di (Thearch) 472
dialogical approach 8
relationships embraced and transgressed 573
dialogue 31, 59, 153, 201, 253
of action 276
of the beautiful 284
between Christians and Confucians 463
between Christians and Jews 111, 117
across difference 304
doctrinal 100, 276
ecumenical 404
of religious experience 276
interdisciplinary 404
of life 14, 200, 276
partners 82, 93
rules of 274
post-Shoah 120
diaspora 116, 177
dichotomy, self / other 568
Didache 172
dietary prescriptions 480–1, 483
differences 148, 171, 198, 209, 325
to be acknowledged and enjoyed 283
doctrinal 286, 288
Dignitas personae 380–1
Diller, Jeanine 490, 494, 533
Dine, Thomas 213
DiNoia, Joseph A, OP 8n
(pseudo-)Dionysius 401, 441, 578n
dīpikā (theology) 314
disabled pilgrims 302
disaffiliation 498
discernment 521
spiritual 489
discipleship 16, 331, 333, 346
linked with cross 339
theology of 332
discourse toward truth 202
discrimination 116
disruption 122
distinction, between Creator and creation 146, 204
distortions 126–7
diversity 198, 277–8, 283
divine
beverages / foods 322
command theory 443
descent 139
forms 285
names 285
persons 283
presence 148
Docetism 145
doctrinal development 411
difference 288
rigidity 35
doctrines 101, 285–6, 288, 415
Buddhist – Christian 536–7
educational import of 286
dod (beloved) 165
dogmas 97
Dominicans 34, 90, 99, 203, 449
Donahue, John 333
Doniger, Wendy 587
Donner, Fred 232, 239
Donum vitae 379–80
double reading / visiting 303
Drew, Rose 535
dual belonging 496, 535, 537, 598
dualism 187, 351, 355, 497, 577
Dubois, Marcel, OP 204
dukkha / dukkhatā (suffering) 354, 391
Dunn, J. 118n
Dunne, John, CSC 200
John Duns Scotus 442
Dupuis, Jacques, SJ 43, 44n, 93n, 102n
Dyad 434, 442
Dzogchen 553
earth, reverence for 292
Easter faith 331, 343, 345–6
Ebionites 92
ecclesiology 120, 128
echoes, between Qur’an and biblical narrations 259
Eckel, Malcolm David 422
Meister Eckhart 359, 435, 590
ecocentrism 402
École Biblique 98
ecology 187–8, 317
ecological ethics 402
protection 363
ecumenical approach 243
Edelmann, Jonathan 15, 270, 273
education 199, 456
egalitarianism 512
egoism 389
Egypt 95, 139, 177, 306
eidolatreia 457
election 236
Eliade, Mircea 7, 63, 81n, 585
Elijah 97
Eliphaz 263
Elisha 260
Elisheva 159
Elizabeth 369
Elizondo, Virgilio 143n
emanationist process 470
embodiment 272, 296, 299–300, 326, 340, 345, 507, 522
embryo: has dignity proper to a person 380
embryological development 371, 378n
emergence, spontaneous 437, 443, 470
emic / etic perspective 273
emotions 20
emotive representations 507
empathy 4, 39, 58, 299, 394, 416
emptiness 337, 391
encounter 36, 117, 201, 206
with alterity 273
blurred 272
habits of 35
interreligious 186, 208
religious Other 567
with theologians of another tradition 230
enfleshment 142
engaged Buddhism 362
engagement 32, 36
ecumenical 114
interreligious 114, 506
personal 83, 201
symbolic 456
English 316, 321
Enlightenment 36, 429, 568
enlightenment 286, 334, 336, 352, 496
environment 172, 187
environmental ethics 272, 299–300, 402
enrichment 23
mutual 100
ensoulment 378, 380
Ephesus, sleepers of 97
epistemology 16, 355, 359, 362, 365, 464, 495
epistemological modesty 578
status of doctrines 536
epochē 77, 81–2
equality 511
meditation on 17
equilibrium 456
Eretz Yisrael 170–1, 177, 180–2, 187–9
eros 403
Esack, Farid 226–7
eschatology 13, 120, 173–4, 208, 216, 308, 383
Christian 223
qurʾānic 221
ethical guidelines 112, 127
paradox 337
resources 297
standards 15
ethics 442, 456
Ethiopia 222
ethnocentrism 62
ethnography 15, 296, 302
etymology 305
Eucharist 172, 217, 458–9, 463, 522, 526
as revealed Word of God 459
Eurocentrism 479, 568, 570
Europe 10, 33, 46, 119, 213, 313
Evangelical Christianity 52, 61
Evangelii Gaudium 42
Evangelium Vitae 379
evangelization 37, 598
Eve 254, 257, 260
evil, forces of 251
exchange 32
meditation on 17
mutual 290
practices 394
exclusion 122, 126
exclusivism 76, 78–9, 118, 415, 493
exegesis
esoteric 132
literal 132
rabbinic 135
exegetes 122, 124, 135
classical 151
medieval 151
Exile, Babylonian 178
exitus 112, 171
Exodus 139, 148, 226, 242, 449, 479–80, 553
expansion 35, 514
experience 296, 302
personal 230
religious 162, 499
ritual 526
expertise 505, 514
expropriation 123
ex quo singulari 451
Exum, Cheryl 155
Ezekiel 185, 213, 217
Fagerberg, David 524
“failed religion” 115
faith, common 101
and freedom 13
grammar of 141
vs. religion 85
seeking understanding 121, 126, 290, 420, 422, 425, 432, 505
structure of 331
and works 99
faithfulness 256–7
Fall, story of the 258
Far East 409, 431
Farina, Marianne, CSC 12
Farquhar, John Nicol 60
Farrer, Austin 552
Farwell, James 524
Father 144–5, 147
Farquhar, John Nicol 60
Feldmeier, Peter 45, 540
fellowship 404
feminism 296, 299, 332
feminist discourse 509
perspectives 66
readings 340
resources 297
studies 532
theology 271, 510, 538
fetus 370
treated as human person 373, 379
postmortem status of 385
fides quaerens intellectum 121
fieldwork 289, 295
figure – ground relationship 557
filial piety 447–8
Firestone, Reuven 233–4, 241–2
first order study 324
Fishbane, Michael 156
Fitzgerald, Timothy 53n, 70n
“flexible believers” 533
Flüchter, Antje 34
fluidity 299, 497, 539
cross-cultural 84, 281
Fordham University 419
forgiveness 255, 260
Foucauld, Charles de 99
fragility 125
Pope Francis 42, 172
Francis of Assisi, Saint 553
Franciscans 449
Francis Xavier 432
Fredericks, James L. 2, 6, 8n, 15–6, 23, 45, 50, 70n, 82–3, 389, 506–7, 592
Fredriksen, Paula 422
freedom 99, 204, 207–8, 284
Freiberger, Oliver 587
French culture 90
friends of God 209
friendship
interreligious 12, 23, 197, 201, 208, 307
as pathway to truth 205
fulfilment theology 52, 61, 93
fullness 146
fundamentalism 282, 442
funeral rites 377, 448
for unbaptized infants 383
Gallie, Walter 541
Gandhi, Mohandas 301, 363, 500
Ganem, Jacqueline 550
Ganeri, Martin 319
Garbhāvākrāntisūtra 371–2
Garden, James 36, 54
Garden of Eden 260
Gardet, Louis 5, 91, 99–100
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism 315–6, 320
Gautama 64
Gemara 175
gender 271, 299, 319, 532
genealogical discourse analysis 72
Genesis 97, 242, 251, 435–6, 441
creation accounts 252
Genesis Rabbah 139
George-Tvrtković, Rita 98n
Germany 57, 73–4, 316
Ghaffar, Zishan 13, 212, 217, 220
al-Ghazālī 208
Giallanza, Joel 199
Gillingham, Susan 555
Glanzman, George 431
globalization 461
Glossa Ordinaria 150
Goa 33, 282
God 151, 167, 221
of ancestors 479
answers his servant 261
attributes of 99
beauty 549
of blood, devotion to 482
as bridegroom 157
as comparative category 426–7
as Creator 145, 207, 250–1, 261–2, 433, 441, 443
not distant from humans 221
end of history 224
eschatological hope 222
freedom of 382
fulness of being 442
provides guidance 261
image of 137
intentional agent 443
jealous 480
justice of 216, 225–7, 382, 443
knowledge of 133, 285, 292
light of 167
Lord of history 260–1
loving relationship with 159–60
mercy of 216, 220n, 250, 263, 370, 382, 384, 443
models of 494
nature of 121, 144, 286, 398
one vs. many 282
as “wholly other” 80
people of 116, 157
as person 436
power of 382
as Pure Act 436
presence of 3, 31–2, 42, 139, 147, 149
responds to Job 249
servant of 167, 248, 255, 260, 262
spirit of 141, 147
son of 415
unity of 144
unknowable 204
will of 141, 381, 442
Word of 137, 164, 436, 459, 461
wrestle with 120
God-centeredness 205
Godlas, Alan 556n
Goddess 286
God’s beloved 151
creative power 250, 260
goodness 179, 254
plan of salvation 417
speeches 248–50
gods, part of cosmic structure 472
Gogarten, Friedrich 73–74
Gold, Ann Grodzins 306
Gold, Neal 181
“golden rule” 395
goodness 42
natural 37
Gore, Charles 56
Gorst, Karen 550–1
Gospel
preaching of 35, 344
preparation for 93
gospels 184
anti-Jewish passages in 118
Govindacharya, Alkandavilli 290
grace 62, 64, 208
omnipresence of 41
over original sin 383
Greco-Roman articulations of doctrines 412, 577
Greek 281, 314, 316, 321
philosophy 415
significance of inculturation 413
Green Joel B. 340–1
Gregory of Nyssa 91, 553
Griffith, Sidney 94n
Griffiths, Bede, OSB 39, 492, 533
Griffiths, Paul 537, 570n
Gross, Aaron 483n
Gross, Rita 361
Gu, Rouyan 17
Guandi, Lord 447
Guanyin Bodhisattva 447, 559
guidelines 127–8
guilt 125
guishen (spiritual beings) 455–6
Gupta, Ravi 274
Guroian, Vigen 403
Gustafson, Hans 23n, 601
Gutierrez, Gustavo 350–1
habits of thought and action 357
Hadewijch of Antwerp 15, 297–8, 300, 308
Hadot, Pierre 494
Haggadah 179, 187–8
hagiography 371
halakhah 132–3, 141
halal 548
Halim Efendi 554
al-Hallāj 95
Hamburger, Jeffrey 550, 554
Han dynasty 476
Hanukkah 181
happiness 392–3
Haq, Nomanul 422
Harachaman (the Merciful One) 174, 179–80
Hardacre, Helen 377n
harinama (names of God) 558
harmonizing of opposites 143
harmony 456
cosmic 402
in community 453
von Harnack, Adolf 74
Hart, Aidan 553
al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī 257
Hatikvah 184
Hauerwas, Stanley 203
Hawting, Gerald R. 237–8
healing 384
experiences 370
retreats 368
Heaven 434, 439, 455
Three Heavens 476
Hebrew 179, 551
Bible 150–1, 167, 173, 342, 479, 482
study of 99
Scriptures 113, 127, 133, 416
Hedges, Paul 1n, 3n, 4, 8, 22, 526, 538–42
Heft, James, SM 208
hegemony 84, 117, 272, 511, 565, 589, 593, 601
Christian 121–2, 128
Western Christian 413
Heiler, Friedrich 78–9, 82
Heim, S. Mark 1n, 6, 19, 86n, 490, 496, 500, 527n
hell 223, 260
Hellenistic culture 18, 413, 416, 441
Hellenization 417
Hephzibah 217
Herakleios, Emperor 215, 219, 221–2
compared to Muhammad 220
hereafter, importance of 222
heresy 57, 145
Hermann, Wilhelm 74
hermeneutical claim 525
framework 593
guidelines 112, 127
influences 316
interpretation 393
location 593
nature of comparative theology 463
privilege of the oppressed 362, 364
strategies 499
hermeneutics 78, 135, 411, 522
Buddhist 16
as conversation 462
diatopical 596
post-holocaust 123
theological 119, 143
Heschel, Abraham Joshua 11–2, 132–42, 143–44, 147, 152, 162, 183, 301
heteropraxis 527
heuristic claim 430
Hick, John 493
Hill Fletcher, Jeannine 45, 507, 513
Hillgardner, Holly 15, 20, 269, 271–2, 277, 278
hilya (ornament) 556
Hindi 314–5
Hindu 307
culture 33, 316
fundamentalists 282
Goddess 283n
majority 289
reformers 61
scholars 312
studies 15, 312, 319, 326–7
theology 273, 290–2, 304, 318
traditions 280, 281n, 283, 320, 436, 507
wisdom 285
Hindu – Buddhist views of self 313
Hindu – Catholic encounter 280–1
learning 283, 289
Hindu – Christian comparative pilgrimage 301, 305
dialogue 276, 278
lopsidedness 269
studies 269, 273
Hinduism 2, 14–5, 37, 52, 56–7, 60, 558
as false religion 60
Vedāntic 83–84
Hinduisms 294
Hindus 102, 304, 558
Hira, Cave of 481
historians 122, 124
historical approach 90–1, 94
consciousness 452, 464
location 420, 432
scholarship 74, 119, 122
historicism 74
history, as evolution 224
interreligious 31
interruption of 224
study of 12, 59
Holy Cross 215, 220
Land 214
Office 450
Spirit 413
home tradition 2n, 6, 101, 421–3, 593
criticism of 424–5
expanding 496
return to 6–7, 9, 111, 171, 423
homo religiosus 55
Homighausen, Jonathan 550n
honesty 206
hope 178–80, 193, 206, 223
Mount Horeb 479
horizon, expanding one’s 593
Hosea 167
hospitality 95, 304, 308
Hud 236
Hultkrantz, Åke 82
human beings 474
condition 493
experiences 64
flourishing 511
knowledge 251–2
humani generis 103
humanity 137, 251, 252
humility 36, 39, 96, 128, 187, 256, 286, 422, 506
intellectual 208
Hungary 213
Husserl, Edmund 77n
Hustwit, J.R. 542, 594, 597
Huxley, Aldous 491
hybridity 539
cross-cultural 84
religious 531, 598
hypostasis 134, 144, 146
Ibn ʿĀshūr 259n
Ibn Sina 204
icon 551
icon-writing 548, 552
iconicity of script 554
iconography 22, 551, 553
iconotexts 559
identity, Christian 571
deconstruction of 572
hyphenated 539
intersectional 14, 271, 373
multiple 270, 275
non-religious 569
plural 569
religious 426
transformation 304
idolatry 160, 282, 447, 449–50, 457–60, 469, 527
ignorance 285, 336
learned 208
IHS 554
I – it relationship 354–5, 357, 361
Ik Onkar (the only one) 553, 559
illumination 23, 205, 290, 551, 555
image 552, 556–7
imagination 281, 283, 304, 443, 519
of the unborn 369, 371, 378
imaginative reconstruction 509
imago Dei 138, 352
immersion in a second tradition 492, 496
imminent expectation 224, 227
immortals 473
immortality seekers 477
“imparative theology / philosophy” 39, 596
imperialism 511, 574
in-betweenness 278, 308
incarnation 97, 121, 137, 139, 144, 146–8, 166–7, 380, 382, 412, 461, 550, 552
creedal articulation of 149
inclusion 126
inclusivism 43, 493
incommensurability 73, 537
indeterminacy 283
India 34, 43, 101, 269, 280, 288, 305
history of 313
Indian Catholics 275, 288–9
context 371
religion 312
rites 36
women 303
Indian – Chinese comparative projects 313
Indian – Western interactions 317
Indology 38, 312, 315, 324
infant baptism 378–9, 382
influences 316
“inner cultivation lineages” 469
innocence 370, 384
Holy Innocents 378
Innocent X, Pope 450
inquiry 32
insider / outsider 467
Institut Catholique 91, 103
Institut Dominicain d’Études Orientales 95, 99, 204
Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies 208
institutional context 319, 575
instruction 139
integrity respect for 507
intellectual interaction 317
intensification 349, 360, 573, 588
interactions between religions 564
intercession 370
interconnectedness 298
interdependence 362, 404
interdisciplinary 296–7
interfaith dialogue 492
studies 201, 204
Interfaith Center of New York 550, 558
“interiorist” method 96, 98
interiorization 185
intermediary 135
intermediate state 374
International Commission on English in the Liturgy 172
International Council of Christians and Jews 170
International Theological Commission 17, 381–3
interpretation 315–6
cross-cultural 452
esoteric 134
history of 168
interreligious 463–4
necessity of 133, 141
rational 134
of rituals 525–6
interreligious collaboration 558
dialogue 6, 23, 128, 209, 263, 275, 402, 460, 563, 575
encounters 280, 495, 564–5
engagement 38
exchange 285
feminist engagement 512
friendship 197, 209
hermeneutics 573
imagination 519
learning 32, 39, 42–3, 45, 182, 189
scribing, theology of 551
studies 22–3, 563–5, 568
theory 569
theology 601
understanding 38, 276
wisdom 40
inter-riting 517
interrituality 21
interruption 122
intersectionality 271, 300, 514
inter-texting 517
intra-comparative religion 313, 316
intra-faith 11
intra-Indic comparative work 317
irony in Mark 342–3
Isaac 157–8, 260
Isaac, Jules 183
Isaiah 242, 333, 395
Ishmael 96, 240, 260
Ishmael, rabbi 11, 132, 134–6, 139, 142, 144
Ishmaelite community 235
Iṣlāḥī, Amīn Aḥsan 259n
Islam 2, 12–4, 40, 56, 62, 75, 288, 481
as enemy 213–4
engagement with 98
Islamization, of Europe 213
Islamochristiana 100
Israel 93, 120, 139, 157, 161
God’s chosen community 233
election of 234
land of 170, 173, 179, 187, 189
people of 111, 235–6
relationship with God 157, 166
state of 115, 121, 179–81, 187
Israiliyyāt (Jewish traditions) 257
I – Thou relationship 353, 357, 361
Jabal al-Nūr 481
Jackson, Donald 550, 555, 557
Jacob 120, 157, 260
James 92, 306–7
James, William 433
janamsakhi 559
japa (meditative chanting) 558
Japan 17, 63–65, 372, 451, 539
Japanese Buddhism 369, 377
prenatal anthropology 373, 375
Jaspers, Karl 491
Jensen, Robin 552, 554, 559
Jeremiah 185
Jerome 306
Jerusalem 140, 170, 174, 179, 203, 207, 306, 332
conquest of 214, 216
daughters of 164
rebuilding of 178
Jesuits 34, 36, 38, 90, 269, 326, 420, 449–50, 452
and Brahmins 325
Jesus 308, 326, 369, 423
cross and glory are “not two” 340
ethics of 413
human love 402
imitation of 224
invites to transcend reductive labels 358
pilgrim ahead 309
powerful wonder worker / suffering servant 341
in the Qurʾān 218, 242, 257
story of 553
tenderness toward children 381
Jesus Christ 11, 63–4, 94, 213
died for our salvation 388
facets of 143
fulness of revelation 414
Jewish person 152
mediation of salvation 145–6
Messiah 184
nature(s) of 132, 146
person of 143
Jewish covenant with God 167
Jewish people 111, 129, 151, 177
as bride 157
daughters of Jerusalem 164
rejection of Christ 165
Jewish roots of Christians 114, 309
Jewish – Christian relations 150–1
Jizō 368, 375
ji zu (ancestors) 447
Job 14, 135, 247–55
accuses God 249
complains 251
example for those who struggle 262
ability to forgive 255
servant of God 252
talks back to God 263
Job’s friends 254–5
wife 254
jōbutsu (Buddhahood) 374
Jōdo Shinshu school 370n
Jōdo Shu 376
John, Gospel of 96, 199, 308, 414, 436, 521
John the Baptist 217, 369
John Chrysostom 254
John Paul II, Pope 379
Johanns, Pierre 38
Johns, A.H. 259, 261n
Johnson, Elizabeth 143n
Jomier, Jacques, OP 98
Jonah 258
Jordan, Louis Henry 583
Jordan, Mark 427n
Joseph, Saint 368
Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Daniel 11, 112n, 124–5, 147n, 171, 190n, 241
Journal of Ecumenical Studies 491
journey
inner and outer 300
over goal 308
Judah, tribe of 159
Judaism 2, 11–2, 56, 62, 91, 124, 214, 288, 422
as ethical and theological system 133
genius of 132
as “near other” 124, 241
Orthodox 180
as precursor of Christianity 93, 124
Rabbinic 113–5, 119. 184, 218
Reform 180–1
Second Temple 113–4
as submerged tradition 125
Judeo-Christian form of theology 92
Judgment Day 221, 223, 227
Jung, Kyeongil 349–50
jun zi (noble person) 456
justice 299–300, 511
bias toward 579
seeking 277
struggle for 227–8
Justin Martyr 145
Kaʿba 220
Kabir 306
Kahil, Mary 97
Kähler, Martin 332
Kailash, Mount 295
kalām 5, 99–100
Kalsky, Manuela 531, 533, 538, 542
Kampala 207
Kangxi, Emperor 450–1
Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti 19–20
karma 361, 369, 372, 437
good 390
loaded 269, 297
social 362
theology of 325
theory 362
karuṇā (compassion) 334, 337
Kashur, Asa 494
Kaur Singh, Nikky-Guninder 559n
Kavanagh, Aidan 524
Keating, Thomas 492
Keenan, John 536
Keller, Catherine 497
kenosis 139, 399, 570
Kerala 282
Khidr 97
Kierkegaard, Søren 224
Kim, Grace Ji-Sun 412n
Kim, Heup Young 412n, 415n
Kim, Sung-hae 412n
King, Martin Luther, Jr. 301, 358–9, 363
King, Ursula 198
Kings, Book of 160
Kitagawa, Joseph 73, 78
Kleeman, Terry 476
Knitter, Paul F. 6n, 8n, 19, 45, 349n, 360–1, 490, 496, 599–600
knowing, deep 202
knowledge, contexts of 288
embodied 402
of God 417
primary religious 523
Kohn, Livia 422
koinonia 404
Komjathy, Louis 2n, 18, 409–10, 414n
Kook, Rabbi Abraham Isaac 181
kosher 548
Kraemer, Hendrik 79
Kramer, Kenneth 518
Krishna 322
Krokus, Christian 5, 40n, 94n, 98n
Kuenen, Abraham 72
Kyoto School 344
Kwok Pui-lan 573
kyriarchy 567n
Lafitau, Joseph-François 35
LaFleur, William 373–4
Lai, Pan-chiu 17
Lakatos, Imre 500
Laksana, A. Bagus 272–3, 303–4, 505, 524, 526
Lalleswari 497
land 12, 121
redefined in New Testament 173
spiritualization of 171
Land of Israel 174, 179, 183
Catholic theology of 170
Langer, Ruth 170n, 177n
language 314, 321, 411, 417
indigenous 34
original 122
target 314
Laojun (Lord Lao) 473–4
Lao Tzu 294
Largen, Kristin Johnston 2, 20
Latin 281, 305, 321, 551
Laudato Si’ 172, 188
Law 165
interpretation of 118, 185
letter of / spirit of 133
written on the hearts 185
learning
deep 202
from another tradition 212, 283, 286
in Hindu – Catholic relationship 286
holistic 286
importance of 15, 31, 36, 42, 287
mutual 16, 207
theological 117
lectio divina 287, 518, 528
Lee, Hyo-Dong 497
van der Leeuw, Gerardus 76–77, 79, 81–82, 585
Lefebure, Leo 45
Leirvik, Oddbjørn 23n
leitourgia (work) 453
Le Saux, Henri 39, 102
Leviathan 250–1
Levine, Amy-Jill 113n, 114
Leviticus 159, 480
lex orandi, lex credendi 382, 524
li (ritual propriety) 438, 446, 448, 452, 455, 458, 462
dimensions of 453
liberation 16, 349, 512
epistemology 362
praxis 566
theology 350, 360, 510
life, culture of 379
Lightfoot, Joseph Barber 56
limbo 378, 379n, 382–3
liminal beings 370
place 375
space 519, 569, 575
Lincoln, Bruce 70
Lindbeck, George 536
linguistic boundaries, thinking across 415
liturgical communion 359
rites 368
theologians 523–4
turn 524
year 172
liturgy 90–1, 119, 218, 382
reference to ultimate, community and individual 453–4
theologia prima 524
locality gods 472, 481
Locklin, Reid 45, 46n, 589
locus theologicus 523
Logos 121, 139–40
incarnation of 142, 144, 414
pre-existent 145
theology 31, 58
Lonergan, Bernard, SJ 197, 202, 462n
Long, Jeffery 490, 497
longing, practices of 298, 308
Lord on High 455
Lot 222
love 103, 157, 165, 167, 308, 395, 404, 429
of enemies 359
equality of 401
filial 402
friendly 402
for God’s sake 396
of neighbors 165, 396
of oneself 388
of others 388, 393
perfect 397, 402
poems 153
universal 351, 356
lovers, of God and world 297
Lubac, Henri de, SJ 40, 91, 101–4, 167
Luce Foundation 10, 558
Lü Dongbin 473
Luke, Gospel of 369
Lumbard, Joseph 233
Lumen Gentium 98
Luther, Martin 306, 401, 423, 458
MacCulloch, John A. 36, 71
Machzor 180–1
Madigan, Daniel, SJ 12n
Madras 281
Madhyamika School 334, 536
Mahabharata 300, 322
Mahayana 64, 331, 334, 336, 338–9, 391, 395, 400, 402, 600
hermeneutics of two truths 536
Maimonides 134, 136, 139, 204
majority 127
Makransky, John 16, 23, 598
Malabar Rites controversies 282
Malits, Elena, CSC 208
Manchukuo 451
Manicheism 425
Marcion 125n
marginalization 568
Marian spirit possession 303
Mark, Gospel of 16, 331–4, 338, 341–4
marriage metaphor 161
Martin, Jerry L. 7, 9, 19, 490, 498, 595
Marxism 332
Mary 96–98, 157n, 369
integrity 218
in the Qurʾān 218
New Temple 217
virginity 218
Massena, Andrew 123
Massignon, Louis 5, 40, 94–98
Masuzawa, Tomoko 3n, 53, 61–2, 72, 583
Matamoros 306
materiality 188–9, 284
Matheson, George 72
matter and method, confluence of 298–9, 304
Matthew, Gospel of 174, 184–6, 378n, 391, 399, 555
Maurice, Frederick Denison 55, 57, 60
Maximus the Confessor 17, 389, 395–8, 400–2
Maya, Queen 369
McCarthy, Kate 565, 569
McClendon, James Wm. 548
McCutcheon, Russell T. 63n, 70n, 79n
McDade, John 142
McDermott, Rachel Fell 271
McEntee, Rory 533
meals 172
Mecca 221–2, 227
Mechtild of Magdeburg 497
Medawar, Pierre-Kamel 98
mediation 144, 147, 528
rabbinic mitigation of 148
Medinat Yisrael (State of Israel) 180, 182 187
meditation 17, 492, 558
on equality 392
on exchange 389, 392–3, 395
on impartiality 389, 393
Mehr, Vahid Mahdavi 13–4
Melito of Sardes 116
memorial site 368, 372
practices 369
prayers 374
rites 377, 383
memories, difficult 120, 125
memory 177, 179, 193
mentorship 204–6
Mercadente, Linda 500
Merton, Thomas 39, 359, 492
messiah 152
Jewish expectations 333
Messiah ben David 217, 342
Jesus as 331, 339
Messiah ben Joseph 217
messianic era 215
hope 215–6, 220
ideas 219
mystery / secret 341
propaganda 221
messianism 180–1
Messiasgeheimnis (messianic secret) 341
Messick, Brinkley 554
metaphorical imagination 443
systems 437, 444
metaphors 151, 161, 277, 300, 309, 318, 435–6, 494, 497, 539, 552
metaphysical paradox 337
Methodism 423, 432
“methodological tolerance” 500
methods , see comparative theology
polycentric 2
Metz, Johann Baptist 13, 223–6
Meurin, Leo, SJ 37
Mevlevi tradition 207
Middle Ages 119, 127
East 201
middle space 308–9; spaces
midrash 240
Midrash Rabbah 11, 150, 152, 157–60, 168, 242
“military – industrial – prison – slaughterhouse complex” 482
Miller, James 414n
mīmāṃsā (Vedic exegesis) 281, 287, 314, 317
Ministry in Context 461
minority 116, 127, 275, 289
Mirabai 15, 297–8, 300, 308
mirror calligraphy 554
Mishnah 133, 175
Avot 147
misperception 355
missiological discernment 461
mission 4, 167, 200
missionaries 3, 35–6, 51, 449, 451, 472, 492
predecessors of Comparative Theology 4, 50, 71
missionary approaches 448
ideology 50, 60, 304, 479
purposes 57, 59–60, 65, 103
work 33
misunderstanding 126
mitzvah / mitzvot 138, 158, 177
mizuko 17, 368, 372–7, 384
mizuko kuyō (water children rites) 368, 372–4, 377
modernity 119
monai (stopping place) 308
Mohist tradition 438
Monchanin, Jules 5, 39, 101–2
Monier-Williams, Monier 51–2
monistic 471
monotheism 144, 222, 239, 314, 468
normative 480
Montini, Giovanni Battista 98
Moore, Mary Elizabeth 23n
Moore-Keish, Martha 20
moral theories 443
de Morales, Juan Bautista, OP 450
Moreau, Basil, CSC 199–200
Mosaic Covenant 233
endurance of 236
Moses 135–7, 139–41, 222, 232, 479–80
and the burning bush 551
Life of 553
Mosher, Lucinda Allen 22, 23n
Moyaert, Marianne 2, 11, 20–1, 45, 171, 230–1, 243, 277, 299
Muhammad 96, 98, 222, 258, 554, 556–7
Ishmaelite messenger 236
no messianic associations 219
night journey 216
ordered to remember God’s servants 260
revelations to 481
mujerista perspective 509–10
Mulla Sadra 208
Mūller, F. Max 36, 51, 60, 71, 75, 425, 583
multicultural environment 415
multiple identities 272, 567
multiple religious belonging 17, 21, 410, 416, 460, 531–4
after religion 542
as discourse 534–5
empirical perspective 533–4
global context 538
“hard” / “soft” 533–4
intercultural approach 539–41
as paradigm 531
multiplicity 152, 156, 161–2, 168, 275
of covenants 167
multisensory exegesis of sacred text 557
multivocality 152, 163
Murray, Paul D. 123
muslim 240
Muslim majority country 152
Muslima perspective 509
mutual benefit 401
communication and correction 463
enrichment 197, 598
illumination 12, 201, 205, 598
inhabitation 83
learning 8, 188
transformation 601
understanding 264, 492, 565
mystery, unnamable 470
mysticism 91, 95, 102, 284, 320, 553, 557
myth 64
mythic stories 59
Nachshon ben Aminadav 159
Nairobi 207
Nālandā 334
Namihira, Emiko 373
Narada Sutras 592
Nārāyaṇa 326
Nasr, Seyyed Hossein 557
Nathan, Emmanuel 12
nationalist cooptation 306
native people, rights of 34
nations, relationship with God 159–60
Nazarenes 97
Nazism 103, 116–7
Near Eastern traditions 308, 431
Neo-Platonic emanation 434
One 443
Neo-Platonism 441–2
Neo-Thomism 90
Nepal 281
Neria, Rabbi Moshe Zvi 181
neuralgic issues 97, 209
Neville, Robert Cummings 7, 9, 18, 83, 212n, 409–10, 416, 463, 468n, 490, 493–5, 498, 595–6
“new comparative theology” 1, 4, 69 81–82, 272
Newman, John Henry 56
New Oxford Annotated Bible 153
New Revised Standard Version 249
New Testament 59, 114, 152, 167, 170, 173, 185, 217, 233, 378, 395, 399, 413, 415, 482
scholarship 186
Nhat Hanh, Thich 351n
Nicene Creed 146
Nicholas of Cusa 359
Nicholas of Lyra 166
Nicholson, Hugh 1n, 4, 8, 50, 272, 419, 511n, 571n, 587, 589–90
nirvana (liberation from suffering) 331–2, 334
false view / right view 336
nirvikalpa jñāna (de-reifying awareness) 357
Nishitani, Keiji 344
de Nobili, Roberto 34, 36, 39
noble person 456
non-attachment 15, 298
non-Christian religions, positive view of 56
non-competitive model 401
non-dual thinking 577
non-dualism 16
of cross and glory 340
non-duality 336, 339
of nirvana and samsara 337
of Redeemer and the Redeemed 400
“nones” 22, 597
non-supersessionist 111
Abrahamic framework 244
reading of Qurʾān 237
theology 121, 241
non-Western approaches 5
normativity, dual 599
no-self theory 392
Nostra Aetate 5, 11, 40, 90, 94, 98, 111, 117–8, 231, 414, 419
“not two” 340
nouvelle théologie 5, 90, 103
Nouwen, Henri 350
Numbers 159
nusachot (liturgical traditions) 175
Nyāya (philosophy) 315, 317, 320
Obermann, Julian 242
objectivity 100
objectification 84
O’Connor, Andrew J. 233
O’Donnell, Emma 524
Oesterreicher, John M. 41
Old Testament 59, 113–4, 118, 125n, 127, 167, 213, 413, 551
saints in 93
O’Leary, Joseph 45, 536, 599
ontological
creative act 434
question of identity 464
status of doctrines 536
Ultimacy 18, 419, 434, 442–4
ontologies, alternative 499
Oostveen, Daan 538
Open Theology (journal) 491, 532, 597
openness 323, 506
dangers of imperialism 574
to Divine mystery 201
to secular world 91
oppressed vs. oppressors 355
oppression 122, 350, 568
intersectional 575
oppressive social systems 361–2, 365
oral theologies, comparing 507
Orbán, Viktor 213
Orientalism 4, 51, 243
Origen of Alexandria 11, 145, 150, 152, 163–65, 167
origination 455
Other 201, 207, 567
danger of use for one’s self-recreation 575
“othering” 122, 242–3
otherness, of religious traditions 6, 63, 65, 189, 590
Otto, Rudolf 76–77, 79–80, 590
Ottoman Turkish 556
“outsider within” 271, 509, 514
Paden, William 587–8
Palestine 333
Pali 371
panenhenic 471
panentheism 314, 471
Panikkar, Raimon 39, 83, 269, 297, 490, 492, 596–7
Pannenberg, Wolfhart 77n
pantheon, Chinese 475
hierarchical 472, 474
pāpa (sin, evil) 270, 314
paradigm 187, 344
paradox 336–8
in Mark 340, 342–3
in Śantideva 340, 391
parahitāya (for the wellbeing of others) 390–1
paramitas (perfections) 335
Paramtattvadas, Sadhu 290
parārthe (for the sake of another) 390–1
Pardes, Ilana 155
parents, concern for 381
Parikṣit 322
pariṇāmanāi (dedication) 335
Parks, Rosa 363
Parliament of the World’s Religions 54, 61
Parousia 345
participation 505, 514–5
restricted 526
participatory riting 523
particularity 32, 123, 128, 186, 282, 430, 570
particularities, attentiveness to 512
particularism 8, 166, 181, 536
Jewish 187
parting of the ways 115, 118
“passing over” 13, 112, 200, 494
passionate non-attachment 298–9
passion 150, 162, 402
narrative 332–3
passions, mastery of 396–7
Passover 188, 522
pastoral 381
Patel, Eboo 23n, 564
patience 256, 260
Patil, Parimal 273, 318
patriarchal gender norms 361
Patron of the Unborn 368
Paul 147n, 184–5, 234, 237, 415–6, 425, 436
as Jew 118
reconfiguration of Torah 184
Paul VI, Pope 5, 98, 203
Paul of Samosata 145
Pawlikowski, John 115
peace 323, 499
Peace, Jennifer Howe 23n
Pentateuch 133
people of Scripture 237, 256
Peppard, Michael 186
peregrinus (foreign) 305
Perennial Philosophy 491
perfection of the bodhisattva path 358, 363
of love 398, 403
of wisdom 336–7
performative act 522
utterance 179
persecution 116
person as embodied awareness 351–2, 357
personal edification 323
turn 498
Peter 339
Peter Lombard 166
Pfleiderer, Georg 80
Phan, Peter 534, 578
phenomenology 76–8
global perspective 83
theological character 81
philautia (self-love) 396–7
philia 402
Philippians, Letter to the 139, 399
Philo of Alexandria 139
philology 314
philosemitism 126
philosophical theology 494–5
philosophy 12, 290, 297
source of theological ideas 429, 434, 489
Phinehas 159
Pieris, Aloysius 533, 541, 598
piety 54
pilgrimage 15, 272–3, 278, 505
failure 308
history of 301
inner / outer 307
inversion of 306
as theological category 295, 300
on the way to truth 299
pilgrimage studies 296, 301, 307–8
PISAI (Pontifical Institute for the Study of Arabic and Islam) 100
Pisani, Emmanuel, OP 101n
piyyutim (liturgical texts) 215
Plato 436, 441, 494
Platonism 425
Plotinus 441
pluralism 61–2, 72, 76, 150, 159, 162, 166, 168, 198, 493, 563
as colonialist discourse 86
cultural and religious 413
as divine pedagogy 238
religious 152, 156, 162
plurality, of inclusivisms 230
internal 127
pneumatology 60
poetry 153, 519
polemics 127, 150, 160, 237–8, 242, 319
misunderstanding 240
theological 55
political decisions vs theological investigation 452
“poly-imaginations” 284
polyphony 277
polytheism 62, 222, 471, 480
polydemonism 62
Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue 114n
for Promoting Christian Unity 114n
pontifical instructions 451
poor, option for the 350
popular religion 284
“populated” religious universe 284
Portuguese 33
positionality 567
positioning 128
postcolonial perspectives 66, 292, 297, 532
theologies 538
postmodern critical theory 422
postmodernist critique of comparative religion 84
postmortem destiny 374, 381, 385
Power, David 188
power 4
dynamics 127
imbalance 125
relations, asymmetrical 566
practice 284, 331
ritual symbolic 522
practitioners 269, 273
pragmatism 430
prajña (wisdom) 334
prajñāpāramitā (perfection of wisdom) 340
prakāśa (theology) 314
praṇidhāna (vow) 334
prasada 522
pratiṣṭhita (abiding) 335
praxis
intersectional 566–7
liberating 566
prayer 179, 193, 200, 359–60, 552
predecessors 40, 104
preferential option for the oppressed / poor 362, 578
prefiguration 93
pregnancy loss 17, 368, 379
memorialization 381
rites 370
prejudices 78
prenatal 368
anthropology 371, 373
beings, nature of 370, 381
presuppositions, role of 82
theological 7–8
primary religious language 525
process theologians 433
thought 430
promises, covenantal 120, 177
Propaganda Fide 450
prophecy 99, 141
prophetic sign-action 343
tradition 361
Prophets 165, 184–5, 240, 256, 258
propitiation 409, 459
Protestant 307, 420, 423–4, 441
Christians 447, 457–8
concept of religion 66, 537
Protestantism 54
Protestant theology 424, 429, 460
inductive method 411
Scripture above tradition 411
Proverbs 139
providence 208, 415
provisionality 123
prudence 128
Psalm(s) 135, 155, 161, 174–5, 178, 186, 222, 555, 557
puja 522
Puranas 306
Pure Land 370, 375, 377, 384
Buddhism 64, 104
Purim 181
Pūrva Mīmāṃsā Sūtras 287, 324
qi (energy) 415, 438, 470, 497
ingestion 477
Qing dynasty 450
Quanzhen Daoism 468, 477
Questions of life, Big 495, 499
Qurʾān 13–4, 98, 214, 216–23, 482, 550–1, 555–6
as Abrahamic Scripture / Islamic Scripture 241
against apocalyptic ideas 226
commentary 212
confirmation of earlier scriptures 232, 234–5, 243
consistent with biblical heritage 223
as possibly divine text 243
exegesis of 212, 227, 257
God of 96, 263
interpreted from a supersessionist framework 234, 238, 242–3
discussion of Judaism 234–5
early Meccan surahs 227
middle Meccan surahs 216, 219
Medinan surahs 232, 261
non-supersessionist reading of 237
pacifism in 219
relationship to Judaism and Christianity 231, 240–1, 263
resistance to political theology of Empire 220, 227
theology of promise 222
Quraysh tribe 258
al-Qurṭubī, Shams al-Dīn 258
rabbinic interpretations 133, 141, 157, 236, 254
race 53, 319
Race, Alan 6n, 61, 492
Radhakrishnan, Rajagopalan 568
Rahman, Fazlur 235, 238, 240
Rahner, Karl, SJ 40, 43, 352n
Räisänen, Heikki 343–4
Rajastan 306
Rajkumar, Peniel 539
Ralston, Joshua 20
Sri Ramakrishna 497
Rāmānuja 37, 80n, 315, 325
Rambachan, Anantanand 280n, 290–1
Ram-Prasad, Chakravarti 313, 319
Rasa (aesthetics) 315, 317
Rashi 150, 160–2, 166, 168
rationality 3, 15, 31
Ratzinger, Joseph 12, 44, 152, 166–7, 379; Benedict XVI
Raw, Stephen 558
al-Rāzī, Fakhr al-Dīn 258
Reader, Ian 307, 375
reading, of authoritative texts 507
comparative 16, 100, 288
new ways of 122
participatory 518
plurality of 120
theological 16, 100, 156
reaffirmation 349, 359, 365, 409, 589
Reagan, Ronald 213
Reality 493
oneness of 286
ultimate 284–5
realization 344
reason 136, 141
role in comparative theology 520
and faith 414
Rebecca 158
rebirth 282, 286, 362–3, 369, 372, 384
ethical act 337
reception history 122
receptivity 525
reciprocity 201, 401
reciprocal illumination 205, 290–1, 598
recitation 549
reconciliation 117
Records of Rites (liji) 446, 453–5
recovery 349, 359, 364, 573, 588
rectification 349, 360, 365, 588, 590
redemption 62, 64, 139, 148, 205, 345
first flowering of 180–1
redemptive grace 382
vicarious 395
reditus 112, 171
reductionistic approach 81
reductive construction of self 353
perception 356
Reformation 36, 301, 413
Regensburg Address 412
reification 355
of reductive thoughts 353
of religion 85
reinterpretation 349, 364, 573, 589
relationality, of religious traditions 572
relationship, embodied 166, 297–8
between humanity world, and God 248, 252
interfaith 203
nonreciprocal 151, 167–8
parent – child 151
sibling 151
spiritual 166
“relative adequacy” 448, 460
relativism 44
“religion”, critique of 19, 63, 66, 70, 83–5, 495
religion, cognitive understanding of 521
comparative 4
concept of 325
as “contested concept” 541
history of 1, 36, 61, 71, 73–4, 103
meaning of 54
natural 75
phenomenology of 4, 76–7, 79, 81
philosophy of 71, 80
Protestant conception of 85
return of religion in postcolonial postmodern world 570
revealed 75
science of 4, 7, 50–1, 75–6
true / false 282
universal idea of 82
“religion in the singular” 491, 499
religions, ethnic – national / universal – world 75
of law 62
mystical 62
natural 62
origin of 37
ranking of 53
Religionsgeschichtliche Schule 74–5
Religionswissenschaft 75, 79, 83
Religiöser Menschheitsbund 80
religiosity, hermeneutics of 538
religious belonging, different understandings 541
as territory / relationship / path 539
transreligious approach 533
religious diversity 69
hybridity 532
identity as tool in comparative theology 589
orders 12, 197
participation, strategic 540
pluralism 156, 317, 446
practice 286
studies 1–2, 4, 7, 411, 467–8, 564
religiously unaffiliated 304
re-narrate loss 384
renouncing attachment 332, 336–7
repentance 235, 260
replacement theory 115, 117, 189, 217
directed at non-Jews in Qurʾān 236
reproductive technologies, ethics of 379–80
research positions 319
resonances 142, 144, 188, 308, 507, 572
responsibility 122, 125
resting 309
ressourcement 90–1
resurrection 99
as abiding 345
return to home tradition 112, 304, 494
revelation 58, 74, 77, 85, 113, 134, 139, 142, 147, 220, 243, 256, 381, 411, 415, 417, 528
modes of 144
Revelation, Book of 213
rhetorical devices 156
rhizomatic network 538
Rhodes, Jerusha Tanner 20–1, 505n
Ricci, Matteo 33, 36, 432, 449
Richardson, Kurt Anders 490, 498, 500
“right to life” 376
“right view” 336, 338–9, 345
right wing populism 213–4
Rightly Guided Caliphs 554
Rig Veda 300
Rilke, Rainer Maria 272
ritual 16, 18, 32, 284, 460, 522
as common conceptual category 453
Confucian idea of 452
efficacy 370, 377
experience 385
interreligious interpretation 462
performance 527
perspective 447
practices 528
propriety 446, 448, 452, 458, 464
public / private 526
reasoning 281
resources 384
sacrifice 18, 483
scholars 122, 522
as theological category 447, 454
transformative effect of 523
turn, in comparative theology 21, 517, 525–8
ritualized slaughter 481
rivalry 113
Roman Catholic 423, 448
Roman Empire 32, 214
Romans, Letter to the 112, 118, 234
Rome 33, 36, 43, 333
Romero, Oscar 359, 363
Rose, Or N. 23n
Roth, Harold 469n
Rudolph, Kurt 75
Ruist value system 478
Rūmī, Jalāl al-Dīn 207
Ruusbroec, Jan van 359
Sabbath 135, 309
Saccidānanda Ashram 39, 102
Sachedina, Abdulaziz 240
Sacks, Jonathan 182
sacramentality 32, 281, 284, 359–60, 553
sacraments 147, 188
sacred 467, 526, 592
texts 119
sacrifices 147, 322, 409, 454–5, 458–9, 481, 593
biblical category 459
Sages 141
Said, Edward 51
Sai no kawara 374–5
Saint John’s Bible 550, 555
saints 209, 307
sainthood 331
Śaiva 315, 497
Siddhānta tradition 284
Śakta 315, 437
Śakyamuni Buddha 369
conception of 371
salāt 556
Saldarini, Anthony 422, 426
salvation 400
in Christ 388, 459, 462
God’s providential plan 417
multiple paths of 286
promises of 382
Sāṃkhya-yoga 315
samsara (realm of suffering) 331, 334–6
abiding in 336
Samuel (prophet) 342–3
Samyak-dṛuṣṭi (right view) 336, 338
San Damiano 553
Sanhedrin 161
Śankara 37, 315, 320, 495, 590
Sanqing (Three Purities) 474–5
Sanskrit 51, 270, 305, 314–6, 321, 335, 371
Santiago de Compostela 307
Santian (Three Heavens) 476
Śāntideva 16–7, 334–5, 337–8, 340–2, 344–6, 388, 390–5, 398, 401–2
“Śantideva Passage” 393
Sasanian Empire 214, 221
śastra (science/scripture) 314
Satan
model of pride and arrogance 260
tempter 248, 253, 257–60, 262
Le Saulchoir 98
Schick, Irvin Cemil 556
Schmemann, Alexander 147n
Schmidt-Leukel, Perry 22n, 45, 205n, 389n, 569, 598–9
Schoenfeld, Devorah 11, 127
Schoeps, Hans-Joachim 92
scholars
believing 273, 275, 326
collaboration between 119
of religion 3, 269, 274
scholar – practitioner 296
scholarship 122
Schuon, Frithjof 491
Schüssler Fiorenza, Elizabeth 340, 343
scientific approaches to religion 81
objectivity 72
science of religion , see religion, science of
Scott, David 274
scribing, sacred 548
Scriptural comparisons 247
reasoning 120, 123, 182, 263
Scriptures 101, 119
Jewish 126
Seal, Brajendranath 290
Second Vatican Council 5, 40, 93, 98, 193, 383, 419
secularization 461
seeing, active 554, 559
Sefer Zerubbabel 215, 217
Şefik, Mehmet 556
selection, in comparative work 322
Self 285
self-contextualization 467
self-divinization 474, 477
self-love 17, 388, 393–5
self-sacrifice 388
self-understanding, of religious Other 86, 122, 272
Jewish 114–5
of particular tradition 230
Semitic 416
languages 314
theologies 315
Sephardi 180
Septuagint 127, 150
Seven Point Mind Transformation Practice 394
al-Shadhili, Abu l-Hasan 555
shahada 556
shamanism 422
Shang Di 434, 455, 472
Shang dynasty 472
Shangqing (Highest Clarity Movement) 477
Shantivanam 39
Sharīʿa 20
Sharma, Arvind 205n, 290–1, 598
Sharpe, Eric 60
Sheba, Queen of 219
Shekinah 139–40, 147–8
shen 415
shengsheng (creativity) 416, 434
shepherds 155–6
Sheridan, Daniel 592
Sheveland, John 277
Shinto-followers 558
Shoah 111–2, 115, 117, 128
Shoemaker, Stephen 216
Shomre Adamah (Keepers of the Earth) 187
Siddharta Gautama 334, 369
siddur (book of prayers) 175, 180–1
Signer, Michael 203, 208
Sikhism 549, 553, 558–9
Silverman, Noah J. 23n
Silverstein, Adam J. 238
similarities 325
over differences 209
Simkins, Ronald 251
Simon the Leper 332, 342
sin 205, 226
Sinai 127, 137–41, 142n, 233, 479, 481
Sinological foundation 415
Sirach 139
Śiva 326, 437
Sulak Sivaraksa 363
skillful action 335
slaughterhouses 482
Slocum, Robert B. 551
Smith, Huston 490–1
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell 54, 63, 85, 491, 596
smṛti (scripture) 314
Sobrino, Jon 350–1
social action 349, 351, 401
change 363, 565
justice 355–6
location 270, 274, 296, 360, 467, 576
sciences 296, 302
sociologists of religion 522
socio-religious practices 447
Söderblom, Nathan 76–7, 79, 81
sola gratia 306
Scriptura 411
solidarity 298–9
creating bonds of 511
with the suffering 225
solitude 295
Solomon (King / Prophet) 154–6, 159, 161, 219, 222
asked forgiveness 260
soma 322
Son 144–5, 147, 415
of Man 333, 339
obedient to Father / exalted by Father 399
Song of Songs 11–2, 150–63
Christian / Jewish interpretations 150
literary character of 152–3, 156
Soskice, Janet 208
soteriology 13, 120
Source, return to 470
sources, accepting non-religious 428
Sources Chrétiennes 91
space, hermeneutical and theological 125
middle space 278, 298, 305, 307–8. third space
shared space 291
speciesism 483
speculative 381
spiral writing 554
Spirit (Holy) 43, 58, 121, 147, 497, 521
wicked spirits 377
spiritual beings 455
practices 499
“Spiritual But Not Religious” 22, 500, 533, 597
spirituality 91, 102, 320
new spirituality 532
spiritual traditions, differences between 102
spiritualization 174, 183, 185–6, 189, 218
splagchna (compassion) 402
śraddhā (faith / conviction) 314
Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition 284, 325
śruti (scripture) 270, 314
Stanley, Arthur Penhryn 56
Stoeger, William R. 208
storge (filial love) 402
Stosch, Klaus von 13, 45, 208, 230, 242–3
Strange, Daniel 541
stranger, visitation of 95
Streeter, Burnett Hillman 51, 63–5
study of religion 22, 61, 563
academic 323
emerges from Christian theology 568
empirical 81
Eurocentric Christian project 568
mutually critical 404
relational approach 567
scientific 584
inter-theoretical turn in 569
subaltern voices 4–5, 66
submission, meditative 518
subordinationism 145
substitution thinking 118, 218
subversion of hegemonic representations 566
suffering 247, 263, 331, 337, 349, 351, 360, 363, 365, 391–3
levels of 354
meaning of 121
servant 333, 339, 395
sign of discipleship 333
Sufi Islam / Sufism 91, 95
Sugirtharajah, Sharada 304n
Summa theologiae 205n
as interfaith achievement 203
sunna 554
śunyatā (emptiness) 337, 391
supersessionism 13, 112, 116, 118, 122–3, 125, 171, 189, 233, 238, 241, 574
forced upon the Qurʾān 231
in Islam 232
superstition 450
supplication 179
svādhyāya (assigned study) 287
Swami Narayan 291
Swidler, Leonard J. 490, 492
symbolic 447, 456, 460
image and engagement 457
practices 525
symbolism 441
symbols 463, 495, 522, 528
sympathy 100
synagogue 148
syncretism 18, 447, 531, 534
Syria 333
Syriac Christianity 282
al-Ṭabarī, Abū Ja’far 259
tabernacle 140, 480
taiji quan 438
Taiwan 18, 446–8, 460–4
Takacs, Axel Marc Oaks 22, 23n
talisman 555
Talmud 175, 219
Tamil language 34, 314–5
Tamil Nadu 282, 284
Tanabe, George 375
Tanakh 113, 120, 127
Tanner, Kathryn 143, 146n, 401, 570, 572
Tanrikyo 446
Tantur Ecumenical Institute 203, 207
Targum 157, 160
tatari (spirit attacks) 377
teachers 164, 287
Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, SJ 436, 498
Temple 140, 148, 217–8, 480–1
destruction of 116, 118–9, 147, 182, 184
Eastern gate of 217
festivals 447
rebuilding of 215–6
temptation 14, 247, 253
Ten Commandments 137
tension 255
creative 120
tertium comparationis 586, 588
as heuristic device 587
Tertullian of Carthage 145n
texts in comparative theology 21, 281, 289, 315
reasons for normative status 519
veneration of 558
textual commentaries 520
criticism 317
interpretation 393
reasoning 521
studies 324
thanksgiving after meals 172, 188
Thatanamil, John 3n, 9, 19, 22, 66n, 84, 419, 490, 492, 495, 595, 597
Thébaud, Augustus, SJ 37
theocentrism 251
theodicy 247, 443
theologia crucis 331, 333
gloriae 333
theological agenda 60
anthropology of prenatals 370
claims 432, 495
ideas 427
insights 508
permission 591
pluralism 162
reading 156, 332
reasoning, helps breaking down boundaries 520
reflection 282
systems, comparison of 100
topic for comparison 428
Theological Education Fund 460
théologie comparée 91, 99
theology 1–2, 4, 467, 499
Anglican 63
apologetic 99
of blood / bloodlessness 483
Catholic 3, 5, 9, 13, 31
Christian 69, 212, 454
comparative 1–2, 7–8; comparative theology
confessional 22, 493, 496
contextual 18, 448
of the cross 331
dialectical 74–75, 78, 85, 99
dogmatic conception of 78, 81
embodied 295
fundamental 6, 103
global 69
Hindu 281
historical dimension 92
possibility of “cognitive ideology” 480n
of indeterminacy 578
interreligious 7, 569, 573
intersectional 576–7, 579
Islamic 13, 241
of Israel 128
Jewish – Christian – Muslim 208
liberal 4, 61, 63, 73, 76, 224, 570
of liberation 226, 291, 299
longing for God’s justice 225
modern 3
narrative 552
natural 133
neo-orthodox 4, 73, 80
neo-Scholastic 103
non-supersessionist 128
philosophical 203, 205
political 13, 20, 212, 220, 223–7
postliberal 570
practical dimension 92
Protestant 4, 13, 73
of religions 6, 43, 58, 70, 81, 421, 492, 563, 591
of religious diversity 9, 85
of sacrifice 459
Scholastic 5, 91
scientia Dei 523
Semitic form of 92
sources of 523
speculative 99
subject matter of 489
systematic 6, 13, 19–20, 99, 128, 208
of the “Third World” 461
transreligious 7, 23, 489, 491, 494
Western academic discipline 479
Theology Without Walls 9, 19, 489, 597
alternative to Comparative Theology, or variant of it 494
theosis 137
therapeutic 385
thinking, both / and 577
reductive 353
third instance 212
language 318
perspective 404
position 212
space 14, 272, 318
Thomas Aquinas 37–8, 91, 203, 378, 401, 427, 435–6, 441–2
interfaith dimension 204
Thomas, M.M. 280n
Thomism 99
Thomistic Act of To Be 442–3
Thompson, Ross 541
Thunberg, Lars 396
Tianshi Movement 476
Tibetan 335
Buddhists 346, 358
masters 394
stories 357n
Tiele, Cornelius Petrus 54, 71, 75
Tiemeier, Tracy Sayuki 23n, 45, 276, 299, 511n, 574
Tilakaratne, Asanga 541
Tillich, Paul 78n, 85n, 436, 457n, 463n, 495
tirthas (crossing places) 301, 305–6
Tiso, Francis 553
Tokyo 368, 376
tolerance 65, 565
Torah 11, 177, 184, 522, 551
as agent of creation / revelation 145, 148
esoteric interpretation 142
heavenly 136, 138–41
human 136
immanent 137
interpretations of 135–6, 141
nature of 132, 138, 141, 144–5
oral 127, 133–8, 141–2, 234
plain sense of 142
pre-existence of 139
scroll 552
study of 147
transcendent 137
unitary view of 138, 141, 143–4, 147
written 127, 133–8, 141–2
Tracy, David 7, 69n, 71, 448n, 462n, 468n
tradition 128, 417
Catholic and Protestant approaches 411
philosophical 197
problematizing notion of 428
re-reading our 183, 189
transformation 199, 206, 287, 474, 478, 522
of Buddhist understanding 363
of comparativist 83, 285, 326, 508, 518, 584
by divine Other 297
transformative process 470
transgression 509, 574
of dominant discourse 566
transitional state 373
translating: Western concepts into Sanskrit 321
translation 270, 314, 321
transreligious insights 489
theology 500, 601
trauma 125
tribal background 289
Trinitarian perspective 403
Trinity 97, 102, 121, 143, 398, 423
mutuality of fellowship 399
of relations 146
triumphalism 124, 189
Troeltsch, Ernst 61–2, 74
truth 32, 42, 44, 124, 202, 209, 286, 288, 420, 432, 493, 495, 524, 591
claims 58, 597
conventional 337, 344
different conceptions in comparative theology 589–90
discernment 594
experiments with 500
paradoxical 345
philosophical / theological understanding 596
pilgrimage to 299
seeking 201
two truths 536
ultimate 337, 344
Tucker, Gordon 133n, 136, 140
Turner, Victor and Edith 307
tutoring 206
Tutu, Desmond 359, 363
typological reading 93, 219
ultimacy 433, 453, 455, 491
concepts of 419
immanent / transcendent aspect of 457
Ultimate, Great 440, 443
metaphors for 427
of Non-being 440, 443
reality 489, 493, 498–9
umma (community) 554
the unborn, humanity of 379
nature of 369
“unborn dead” 370
unconditional love, as power of resistance 359
understanding, cross-cultural 448
seeking faith 432, 595
of otherness 122, 525
phenomenological 79, 82
sympathetic 62, 65
theological 79
ultimate reality 492
union, divine – human 96, 147
uniqueness, of Christian – Jewish relations 111–3
United Kingdom 51, 56, 63
United States 10, 17, 201
unity of humankind 402
universalism 166, 186
Christian 187, 569
Eurocentric 569
religious 566n
University of Chicago 419
of Notre Dame 197–8, 203–4, 207
unknowing 202, 435
unsettle assumptions 297
Upaniṣads 281, 320, 436
Urban II, Pope 305
Uttara Mīmāṃsā Sūtras 287, 324
vac 58
Vaiṣṇava theology 80
Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition 403
Valentinus of Rome 145
Valkenberg, Pim 5, 6n, 12, 22n, 238, 240
valuation theory of religious symbols 463
van Wiele, Jan 37n
Varanasi 306
Vasfi Efendi, Omer 556
Vatican 301, 451; Second Vatican Council
Veda 322
Vedānta (theology) 38, 80, 281, 284, 287, 315–6, 320, 497
Vedāntadeśika 324–5
vegetarianism 477–8
vicarious suffering, of Christ 593
Vinaya 372
violence 158
horizontal 513–4
viraha bhakti 297
virginity 164
virtue 133
of the ancestors 456
Vishnu 437
visualization 394
Vivekananda, Swami 497
vocabulary 101
vocation 200, 202
Voss Roberts, Michelle 20, 66n, 271, 299, 319, 497–8, 507n, 533
votive tablets 375–6
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 532
Vulgate 127, 150, 551
vulnerability 525
vyākaraṇa (grammar) 317
Waardenburg, Jacques 79n
Wach, Joachim 78–9, 82
Wahb ibn Munabbih 257
Wallace, William 37–8
Walsh, Maureen 16, 20
Walter, Mariko Namba 374
Waltke, Bruce 173
wanderer 300
war 481–2
qur’anic critique of 223
Ward, Benedicta 307
Ward, Graham 398
Ward, Keith 50, 493, 595
warning against injustice 227
Watson, Anthony J. 490
“way of beauty” 43, 283n
Weidenbaum, Jonathan 490
Wen, Lord 410
Wesleyan tradition 424
Westcott, Brooke Foss 56
Westcott – Teape lectures 269, 273
Western academic world 10, 288–9, 290, 312, 326
concept of religion 66, 84
philosophies 315
superiority 35, 563
thought 320
White Christian dominance / supremacy 564–5
Whitehead, Alfred North 433, 494, 497
whiteness 270, 296
Wildman, Wesley J. 490, 495, 498, 595
Wilken, Robert 203
Williams, Daniel Day 73
Williams, Noel 376
Williams, Rowland 51, 55, 57–60
willingness to enact what we learn 286
Winkler, Ulrich 11
Wippel, John 441n
Wirbser, Rouven 34
wisdom 332, 337
human 141
perfection of 336
practical and disciplined 288
pre-existent 139, 142
pursuit of 251
witness 209, 345, 598
Wittgenstein, Ludwig 202, 536
woman anointing Jesus 331–2, 343
embodies practice 345
paradigm of discipleship 340
paradigm of Easter faith 344
womanist perspective 509–10
women in religious traditions 271
Word of God 140; God, Word of
Qurʾān as 241
word-as-image 557
“world canon” 500
World Congress of Faiths 97
World Council of Churches 5, 459n, 460, 539
world, goodness of 31
world religions 3, 37, 53, 61, 72
“world religions paradigm” 3, 22, 53, 537–8, 541–2
world, reparation of 226
“world theology” 69, 596
worship of images 457
Wrede, William 341
Wu, Kijin James 18, 409–10, 416
xiao (filial piety) 447
Yaḥyā (John the Baptist) 217
yang (extension) 438, 470
yatra (journey) 305
Yehudah ben Yehezkel, Rav 136
Yerman, Neil 550
Yerushalmi, Yosef 177n
Yiguandao 446
Yijing 438, 440
yin (contraction) 438, 470
Yoder, John Howard 203
yoga 320
Yousafzai, Malala 363
Zakariya, Mohamed 550
Zechariah / Zakariya 182, 217–8
Zen 536, 541
calligraphy 557
koan 414
stories 357n
zhongyong (equilibrium) 456
Zhou Dunyī 439–40
Zhou dynasty 434
Zion 178
Zionism 180–1
Zōjōji Temple 368, 376
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Series:  Brill's Companions to Modern Theology, Volume: 2
Cover A Companion to Comparative Theology
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9789004388390
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Print Publication Date:
28 Jul 2022
Front Matter
Introduction
Part 1 Comparative Theology before 1985
Part 2 Judaism
Part 3 Islam
Part 4 Hinduism
Part 5 Buddhism
Part 6 Chinese Religion
Part 7 New Perspectives in Comparative Theology
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