The Truth, the Way, the Life: Christian Commentary on the Three Holy Mantras of the Srivaisnava Hindus (Christian Commentaries on Non-christian Sacred Texts) - Softcover

Clooney, F. X.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042920475 ISBN 13: 9789042920477

Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2008

Synopsis

The Truth, the Way, the Life offers a careful reading of the three holy mantras of Srivainavism, a south Indian Hindu tradition dedicated to Narayana, Lord of the universe, and Sri, his eternal spouse. The mantras, short prayers rich in theological and devotional meaning, explain and encourage a way of life dedicated to praise and service, surrender and dependence on divine grace -- and so introduce key topics that Christian readers will find familiar and still central to the spiritual life today. / Francis Clooney's commentary is explicitly Christian and yet deeply indebted to the classic reading of the mantras by the fourteenth-century theologian Vedanta Desika; it thus exemplifies an interreligious learning appropriate to the twenty-first century and yet, in the end, still deeply Christian.

About this title

About the Author:

Francis X. Clooney, S. J., is Parkman Professor of Divinityand professor of comparative theology at Harvard DivinitySchool. His other books include Beyond Compare: St.Francis and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender toGod and Hindu God, Christian God. -

About this edition

• Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 9042920475
• ISBN 13: 9789042920477
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 203