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His Hiding Place is Darkness

A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence

by Francis X. Clooney

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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"His Hiding Place is Darkness" explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond today's religious and interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading of the absence of the beloved in the Biblical Song of Songs with a pioneering study of the same theme in the Holy Word of Mouth (9th century CE), a classic of Hindu mystical poetry rarely studied in the West. Remarkably, the pairing of these texts is grounded not in a general theory of religion, but in an engagement with two unexpected sources: the theopoetics, theodramatics, and theology of the 20th-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the intensely perceived and written poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. How we read and write on religious matters is transformed by this rare combination of voices in what is surely a unique and important contribution to comparative studies and religious hermeneutics.
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Atonement and Comparative Theology: The Cross in Dialogue with Other ReligionsHis Hiding Place is Darkness

  • Author

    Francis X. Clooney

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    December 2013

  • Weight

    473g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804776806

  • ISBN-10

    0804776806

  • Eden Code

    4263973

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