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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812728203321

Autore

Komulainen Jyri

Titolo

An emerging cosmotheandric religion? : Raimon Panikkar's pluralistic theology of religions / / by Jyri Komulainen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, Mass., : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-91526-9

9786610915262

90-474-0550-1

1-4294-0814-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Collana

Studies in Christian mission, , 0924-9389 ; ; v. 30

Disciplina

261.2/092

Soggetti

Theology of religions (Christian theology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-230) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary material -- INTRODUCTION -- STARTING-POINTS OF PANIKKAR’S THEOLOGY -- PANIKKAR’S PROGRAM OF THE THEOLOGY OF RELIGIONS -- THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND PANIKKAR’S THEOLOGY -- COSMOTHEANDRISM—THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL REDUCTION OF RELIGIONS? -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- STUDIES IN CHRISTIAN MISSION.

Sommario/riassunto

Raimon Panikkar (b. 1918), a Catalan-born Hindu-Christian, is a prominent theorist of interreligious dialogue. This study gives a detailed analysis of his theology of religions. On the basis of the most recent sources available, it appears that even his “radical pluralism” cannot eschew the inherent problems characteristic of pluralistic theologies of religions. Unlike other pluralists, Panikkar does not subscribe to the Enlightenment tradition. Instead, his plea for the transformation of existing religions is based on an idiosyncratic “cosmotheandrism,” which draws on both primordial religious traditions and existentialist philosophy. The prerequisites of interreligious dialogue, as outlined in his work, thus entail commitment to a particular cosmology and mode of consciousness.