Francis X. Clooney
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Francis X. Clooney has served as Parkman Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.
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"Without Ceasing to Be a Christian"
World Religions
“'Without Ceasing To Be a Christian' makes a welcome and substantive contribution to the growing library of assessments of Raimon Panikkar’s intellectual legacy. Writing from outside the circle of Panikkar’s immediate disciples, Ranstrom and Robinson engage his thought with the utmost respect and sensitivity – and thus are willing also to raise substantive concerns about the coherence and cogency of some of his positions and his overall theology. This admirably collegial work is also the fruits of an ecumenical, Catholic-Protestant friendship which freshly draws Panikkar into a deservedly broader Christian conversation. It is sure to help set Panikkar studies on a new foundation and promote a new wave of scholarship about him.”
Prayer & Spiritual Formation
“An Invincible Summer Within offers the fruits of a lifetime of wise meditation told to us and experienced in many years of practice. A host of spiritual masters hover around this book . . . but most important for O’Hare is the larger community of women and men with whom he has ministered and meditated for so long and so faithfully. This is a rare how-to book that is grounded in deep wisdom that never rests short of the practice.”
Theology
“Body Parts skillfully combines Christian theological learning with deep sensitivity to the human condition, to create a rich and sensitive perspective on the fundamental yet often misunderstood reality of human embodiment. Voss Roberts draws on Christian sources — ably nuanced through her reading of Saiva Hindu traditions — to reflect wisely on the wondrous yet always fragile unity of body and soul that makes us who we are, and to chart a course for how we might better flourish as individuals and in community. Inspired by her teaching and classroom conversations, Body Parts is blessed with an accessible and conversational tone throughout. It will be a valued resource in seminary and college classrooms.”
World Religions
“Calling in Today's World offers broad yet balanced perspectives on a question that rightly preoccupies believers across religious traditions: What is this call that changes one's life, whence does it come, and where does it lead? Whether readers are already convinced of their calling, or seeking to retrieve the very idea of a personal calling, or simply curious about how religious people think themselves called, this volume offers a mature and generous set of aptly nuanced possibilities for study and appropriation.”
Christian Theology in a Pluralistic Age
Theology
“This fine volume is the fruit of conversations among nine Christian theologians facing together some of the daunting issues of our century: pluralism engaged in a nonreductive constructive manner; interreligious learning in actual practice, demonstrated by concrete examples; theology returned in the public square amid changing social, philosophical, and religious realities; new meeting points of the sacred and secular. David Jensen and his colleagues help us to reimagine the duties and risks of theology in our times.”
World Religions
“Competing Fundamentalisms is intelligent and scholarly, a timely and courageous book that faces head on the fact of violent extremism in Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism. Clarke attends carefully and soberly to fundamentalism in all its variety, dissects the circumstances underlying religious violence, and digs down to core issues on how religions and societies work at their worst and their best. By taking up a comparative angle, he resists the temptation to blame one tradition or declare another innocent. He is sober and realistic, avoiding easy optimism and yet, in the end, also brings a deeply religious hope to bear: in God we can clear paths of peace more grounded than any extremism; In Christ, we can help build communities witnessing to God’s peace on earth.”
Men
“Equal parts travelogue and diary, confession and acknowledgment of the many people who helped him along the way, Desert Spirituality for Men speaks eloquently of one man’s journey as scholar and teacher, priest and human person marked by God’s grace in the ups and downs of his life. There is indeed wisdom here for men, but also for all of us discerning vocation and life’s meaning in our uncertain times.”
Earthing the Cosmic Christ of Ephesians—The Universe, Trinity, and Zhiyi’s Threefold Truth, Volume 4
Biblical Studies & Commentaries
“John P. Keenan continues his foundational retrieval of Ephesians in Earthing the Cosmic Christ. This fourth volume too models erudite close reading, deep comparative theological learning, and contemplative insight—all at the service of bringing fully to life Ephesians’ vision of Christ in the world, transforming the cosmos. Tiantai Zhiyi’s threefold truth, ancient yet timely, ever illumines Keenan’s path as he brings a lifetime of multireligious learning to bear in this volume, doing effortlessly what few of us could even imagine.”
World Religions
“Lynn Cooper is a wonderful storyteller, as she draws on her many interfaith experiences to show us vividly how interreligious values come to the fore in ordinary life amid the work we do and, above all, in the evolving friendships gifted to us and cultivated over the years. This is a fine book about friendship in interreligious dialogue, but it is more--a rich testimony to Cooper's own life journey, a path enriched by stories of finding God amid the relationships that keep giving vitality to her life and ministry.”
Encounters with the World’s Religions
World Religions
“The book is a lovely weaving together of Brad's experience and erudition, the personal and the interreligious. From the opening pages regarding his son, it has an intimate and even confessional quality to it. I am sure it will be much appreciated.”
Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue
World Religions
“Vatican II is now several generations behind us, but we are still catching up to its new understanding of the church, the world, and the world’s many religions. Evangelization as Interreligious Dialogue, perched between actualities of interreligious dialogue and the needed renovation of Catholicism’s theology of religions, adds another voice to the needed Catholic conversation that must precede the interreligious learning to follow. Naysayers—Catholic and in other traditions—scoff at the very idea of interreligious learning, but this solid collection shows that it will only gather speed over time, to the benefit of believers in every tradition.”
Arts & Literature
“Henri Le Saux, OSB—Swami Abhishiktananda—was a renowned mystic, pilgrim, and theologian. A master of prose, he was also a passionate poet, by eloquent words probing the mystery of God, speech reaching from his heart to the heart of his readers. Jacob Riyeff has done us a great service in translating the poems into today's English: simple and spare, yet richly resonant of Sanskrit and Tamil poems sung through the ages. For those who know Swami's works, In the Bosom of the Father will be a welcome resource that fills out the great store of his teachings. For newcomers who browse these poems and then take them to prayer, it opens a sure path into the wisdom of an extraordinary man in a remarkable era of the Church in India.”
Theology
“Leave the Temple signals an important step forward in the maturing of liberation theology in the Indian context . . . [This] volume succeeds in hearing and putting into new words both the voice of Christ and the voice of India today.”
Pathways to Hindu-Christian Dialogue
World Religions
“Pathways to Hindu Christian Dialogue is the fruit of Anantanand Rambachan's lifetime of reflection and conversation, deep theological learning, and patient commitment to dialogue as understood and practiced at home and abroad. He shows us in a simple and direct way, free of jargon and from the heart, the ever-greater value of dialogue in today's fractured and intolerant world. Hindus and Christians, and believers in every tradition, will want to travel the wise and serene pathway Rambachan clears for us.”
World Religions
“This is a fine example of comparative theology in action. If readers want to know how the discipline works when it works well, they can turn to Ramanuja and Schleiermacher.”
Theology
“The Great Open Dance is a lucid testimony to a Christian faith that journeys through our world with its eyes wide open to all the good and bad around and within us. Jon Paul Sydnor brings a lifetime of learning, living, and loving to his reflections, yet he keeps his account light and inviting, accessible to a wide range of readers. His views on Christ, the church, and the faith are quite strong and pointed, but always presented with real charity, for the good of persons and communities of faith today.”
Theology
“The Immanent Divine vividly demonstrates how comparative theology is a quickly maturing discipline, able to engage fundamental and wide-reaching human and religious issues.”
Understanding Religious Pluralism
World Religions
“Understanding Religious Pluralism is the rare edited volume that, in its diversity of voices and approaches, contributes by focus and depth to our grasp of the prospects and problems inherent in today's pluralistic environment. The major addresses and responses sharpen the key issues, while the accompanying papers chart where we can go with respect to particular texts and contexts, possibilities, and questions. Even as it reports on a rich set of conversations already in place, the volume opens the door to many more.”
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