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His hiding place is darkness : a Hindu-Catholic theopoetics of divine absence / Francis X. Clooney.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Encountering traditionsPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780804788809
  • 0804788804
  • 0804776806
  • 9780804776806
  • 0804776814
  • 9780804776813
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: His hiding place is darkness.DDC classification:
  • 261.2/45 23
LOC classification:
  • BT180.H54 C56 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)713406

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

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.