Clooney S. J. Professor Francis X. (Harvard Divinity School Usa)
Clooney S. J. Professor Francis X. (Harvard Divinity School Usa) - Hindu And Catholic Priest And Scholar A Love Story - Paperback
Clooney S. J. Professor Francis X. (Harvard Divinity School Usa) - Hindu And Catholic Priest And Scholar A Love Story - Paperback
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Description: This autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle - class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism as professor and Catholic priest and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity Harvard University. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar - practitioner since his wide learning Christian and Hindu is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments as well as in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner. What Clooney has learnt and written must be understood in terms of a love of Christ deeply informed by a Hindu instinct for loving God without reserve. A fundamental spiritual disposition intuitions of God present everywhere has energized his work over his long career love giving direction and body to his professional academic work.
Title: Hindu And Catholic Priest And Scholar A Love Story
Author(s): Clooney S. J. Professor Francis X. (Harvard Divinity School Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780567710239
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 7/25/2024
Category: Hindu Life & Practice
Description: This autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle - class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism as professor and Catholic priest and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity Harvard University. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar - practitioner since his wide learning Christian and Hindu is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments as well as in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner. What Clooney has learnt and written must be understood in terms of a love of Christ deeply informed by a Hindu instinct for loving God without reserve. A fundamental spiritual disposition intuitions of God present everywhere has energized his work over his long career love giving direction and body to his professional academic work.
Title: Hindu And Catholic Priest And Scholar A Love Story
Author(s): Clooney S. J. Professor Francis X. (Harvard Divinity School Usa)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780567710239
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 7/25/2024
Category: Hindu Life & Practice
