![]() ![]() Then, it speculatively suggests possible answers to those questions, inviting Ramanuja and Schleiermacher to respond to the collegial challenges raised. By comparing their description of God’s continual preservation of the universe, this book asks original, unfamiliar questions of each. ![]() Each argues that God sustains the universe at every moment of its existence, but they work out the divine sustenance in very different ways. ![]() In order to demonstrate the power of this process, this book compares two preeminent theologians, Sri Ramanuja of the Hindu tradition and Friedrich Schleiermacher of the Christian tradition. New comparisons produce new questions, new questions produce new answers, and new answers constitute new theology. More importantly, it argues that the critical insights gained through comparison can produce constructive theology or, in other words, revised and renewed worldviews. Specifically, this book argues that the novel and burgeoning discipline of comparative theology is a powerful method for gaining critical insight into our inherited worldviews. Can the comparison of two theologians vastly separated in time and space help contemporary theologians to think better? This book argues that it can. ![]()
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