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

Clooney, Francis X.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802864139 ISBN 13: 9780802864130

Publisher: Eerdmans, 2009

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: Eerdmans
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0802864139
• ISBN 13: 9780802864130
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214