INDIA: FROM PHILOSOPHICAL ANALYSIS TO THEOLOGICAL EVALUATION

Abstract

Recently, an anthology was published by Doubleday that deserves the attention of scholars and students interested in the higher tradition of Hindu thought. Hindu Theology: a Reader, edited with an Introduction by Jose Pereira, brings together selections from the millennium of Hindu theology following, Sankara. Pereira focusses on material neglected by previous anthologies. He views this material as theology rather than philosophy and he organizes the material in an original fashion. The anthology is .a useful and significant achievement. It represents an advance in the understanding of the development of Hindu thought and reveals opportunities for a further development of understanding. It also has some faults.