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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clooney, Francis X. (Francis Xavier), 1950-

Series:

Encountering Traditions

Encountering traditions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nammāl̲vār. Tiruvāymol̲i.

Nammāl̲vār.

Bible. Song of Solomon--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.

Christianity and other religions.

Hidden God--Comparative studies.

Hidden God.

Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.

Hinduism.

Vaishnavism--Hymns--History and criticism.

Vaishnavism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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.<

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780804788809

0804788804

OCLC:

862608999