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His hiding place is darkness : a Hindu-Catholic theopoetics of divine absence /

Clooney, Francis Xavier, S.I., 1950-

His hiding place is darkness : a Hindu-Catholic theopoetics of divine absence / Francis X. Clooney. - 1 online resource (205 pages) - Encountering traditions . - Encountering traditions. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue; A Note on Editions and Translations of the Song of Songs, Holy Word of Mouth, and Commentaries; Act One: Missing Him; Entr'acte One: Love In-between; Act Two: Spiritual Exercises in Times of Absence; Entr'acte Two: Writing Theology after the Hiding of the Beloved; Act Three: In the End; Epilogue: Jesus, the Beloved; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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 p.


English.

9780804788809 0804788804 0804776806 9780804776806 0804776814 9780804776813

10.1515/9780804788809 doi


Nammāl̲vār. Tiruvāymol̲i.


Bible.--Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--Song of Solomon
Tiruvāymol̲i (Nammāl̲vār)


Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.
Hidden God--Comparative studies.
Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.
Vaishnavism--Hymns--History and criticism.
Christianisme--Relations--Hindouisme.
Dieu caché--Études comparatives.
Hindouisme--Relations--Christianisme.
Vishnouisme--Hymnes--Histoire et critique.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
Christianity
Hidden God
Hinduism
Interfaith relations
Vaishnavism--Hymns


Comparative studies
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

BT180.H54 / C56 2014eb

261.2/45