THE WISDOM OF LEARNING INTERRELIGIOUSLY AFTER FIDES ET RATIO

Authors

  • Francis X Clooney Harvard University

Keywords:

WISDOM, FIDES ET RATIO

Abstract

welcome this opportunity to reflect on the construction of new
culture-specific (or “local”) theologies in light of the insights and
invitation of John Paul II in Fides et Ratio. I was particularly happy to
recall for this purpose how he highlighted India as a particularly
important site for Christianity’s new learning from an ancient and
great culture of Asia.

Author Biography

Francis X Clooney, Harvard University

Fracis X. Clooney, SJ, is Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of
Comparative Theology and director of the Center for the Study of World Religions,
Harvard University. After earning his doctorate in South Asian Languages and
Civilizations (University of Chicago, 1984), he taught at Boston College. His primary
areas of scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil
traditions of Hindu India, and the developing field of comparative theology. He is
the author of numerous articles and books, including most recently Beyond Compare:
St. Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God (Georgetown University
Press, 2008), The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy
Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus (Peeters Publishing, 2008), and Comparative
Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010). He recently
edited The New Comparative Theology: Voices from the Next Generation (Continuum,
2010). In July 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy. Email:
fclooney@hds.harvard.edu

References

Francis X Clooney, “In Ten Thousand Places, In Every Blade of Grass: Uneventful but True Confessions about Finding God in India, and Here Too,” Studies in the Spirituality of Jesuits 28.3 (May 1996).

Francis X Clooney, "Comparative Theology: Deep Learning Across Religious Borders (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

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Published

2011-06-30

How to Cite

Clooney, F. X. . (2011). THE WISDOM OF LEARNING INTERRELIGIOUSLY AFTER FIDES ET RATIO. Asian Horizons, 5(02), 222–231. Retrieved from https://dvkjournals.in/index.php/ah/article/view/2313

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Vol. 5 No. 02 (2011): ASIAN HORIZONS

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