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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478934203321

Autore

Thatamanil John J.

Titolo

Circling the elephant : a comparative theology of religious diversity / / John J. Thatamanil

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Fordham University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

0-8232-8854-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 296 pages)

Collana

Comparative theology: thinking across traditions

Disciplina

261.2

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions

Religious pluralism

Religions - Relations

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface: Autobiography and Comparative Theology -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Revisiting an Old Tale -- 1. Religious Difference and Christian Theology: Thinking About, Thinking With, and Thinking Through -- 2. The Limits and Promise of Exclusivism and Inclusivism: Assessing Major Options in Theologies of Religious Diversity -- 3. No One Ascends Alone: Toward a Relational Pluralism -- 4. Comparative Theology after Religion? -- 5. Defining the Religious: Comprehensive Qualitative Orientation -- 6. The Hospitality of Receiving: Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Interreligious Learning -- 7. God as Ground, Singularity, and Relation: Trinity and Religious Diversity -- 8. This Is Not a Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Christian theologians have for some decades affirmed that they have no monopoly on encounters with God or ultimate reality and that other religions also have access to religious truth and transformation. If that is the case, the time has come for Christians not only to learn about but also from their religious neighbors. Circling the Elephant affirms that the best way to be truly open to the mystery of the infinite is to move away from defensive postures of religious isolationism and self-



sufficiency and to move, in vulnerability and openness, toward the mystery of the neighbor. Employing the ancient Indian allegory of the elephant and blind(folded) men, John J. Thatamanil argues for the integration of three often-separated theological projects: theologies of religious diversity (the work of accounting for why there are so many different understandings of the elephant), comparative theology (the venture of walking over to a different side of the elephant), and constructive theology (the endeavor of re-describing the elephant in light of the other two tasks).Circling the Elephant also offers an analysis of why we have fallen short in the past. Interreligious learning has been obstructed by problematic ideas about “religion” and “religions,” Thatamanil argues, while also pointing out the troubling resonances between reified notions of “religion” and “race.” He contests these notions and offers a new theory of the religious that makes interreligious learning both possible and desirable. Christians have much to learn from their religious neighbors, even about such central features of Christian theology as Christ and the Trinity. This book envisions religious diversity as a promise, not a problem, and proposes a new theology of religious diversity that opens the door to robust interreligious learning and Christian transformation through encountering the other.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557719203321

Autore

Luchko Yuri

Titolo

Fractional Integrals and Derivatives: "True" versus "False"

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (280 p.)

Soggetti

Research & information: general

Mathematics & science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue is devoted to some serious problems that the Fractional Calculus (FC) is currently confronted with and aims at providing some answers to the questions like “What are the fractional integrals and derivatives?”, “What are their decisive mathematical properties?”, “What fractional operators make sense in applications and why?’’, etc. In particular, the “new fractional derivatives and integrals” and the models with these fractional order operators are critically addressed. The Special Issue contains both the surveys and the research contributions. A part of the articles deals with foundations of FC that are considered from the viewpoints of the pure and applied mathematics, and the system theory. Another part of the Special issue addresses the applications of the FC operators and the fractional differential equations. Several articles devoted to the numerical treatment of the FC operators and the fractional differential equations complete the Special Issue.