Abstract:Much depends on questions of belonging and home. If one must, by definition, belong to a single home community to do theology, then the use of the term "theology" in both comparative theology and Theology Without Walls is equivocal. Transreligious theologians refuse to stipulate that theology must be done for a theologian's home community. But the term "theology" might be understood in another sense—the existentially invested quest for religious truth that does not require a primary religious home. With this understanding, theology is existentially serious and committed reflection, whereas truth-seeking that entails no existential commitment (with or without a home) might go by another label, such as "philosophy of religion." After all, the philosopher of religion may well be agnostic or atheist. But two further sets of distinctions must follow: 1) the distinction between a) transformative truth accessed through the specific therapeutic regimes of a particular home tradition and b) public truth that requires no transformation but only publicly defensible epistemological warrants; and 2) the means of arriving at a) transformative truth on the one side and b) publicly available truth claims on the other. What I know by way of experience (anubhava) or a scriptural revelation (śruti) is particular to how my tradition accesses transformative truth. When I seek to publicly defend the content of that experience or scripture, I must engage all comers by means of knowing and disputation that are acceptable to all and do not depend on belonging to or accepting the internal norms of a home tradition. Avoiding muddled debates between comparative theology and TWW requires keeping these distinctions in view.
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Abstract:This article looks at the contrasting senses of home in comparative theological engagement that launches from a home tradition, with norm-driven accountability, and transreligious theology that creates home on the fly as a shifting matrix of meaningful touch points in conversation with endless others, with a more dynamic and transactional form of accountability.
{"title":"Cosmopolitan Nomads and Intensive Farmers: The Sense of Home in Transreligious and Comparative Theology","authors":"W. Wildman","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2023-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2023-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article looks at the contrasting senses of home in comparative theological engagement that launches from a home tradition, with norm-driven accountability, and transreligious theology that creates home on the fly as a shifting matrix of meaningful touch points in conversation with endless others, with a more dynamic and transactional form of accountability.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46919447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article reflects on my experience of what it means to have a "home" as a comparative theologian. As I treat comparative theology and transreligious theology here, both are religiously engaged practices. Comparative theology begins from a religious location and seeks to enrich it with learning that can be shared in that community, while transreligious theology engages with religious input in a "free range" manner, with no presumed outcome. Comparative theologians do not shy away from practice that becomes participation in another tradition, and transreligious theologians do not shy away from conclusions or actions that might place them more on one religious path than another. If to know only one religion is, in important respects, to know none, so too are those not pursuing any particular religious path partially disabled in knowing aspects of all others. Home points to the existential dimension always at play in this kind of scholarship, and this essay illustrates what that dimension looks like in my case. Such examples suggest the complexity nestled in the idea of home, a complexity with its own comparative theological character. If home is meant to indicate a reference point, it is a moving target for all of us. This article is framed around three aspects of that complexity: home as where we come from, where we live, and where we are going.
{"title":"Home in Three Dimensions: Personal Location in Comparative and Transreligious Theologies","authors":"S. M. Heim","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2023-0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2023-0004","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article reflects on my experience of what it means to have a \"home\" as a comparative theologian. As I treat comparative theology and transreligious theology here, both are religiously engaged practices. Comparative theology begins from a religious location and seeks to enrich it with learning that can be shared in that community, while transreligious theology engages with religious input in a \"free range\" manner, with no presumed outcome. Comparative theologians do not shy away from practice that becomes participation in another tradition, and transreligious theologians do not shy away from conclusions or actions that might place them more on one religious path than another. If to know only one religion is, in important respects, to know none, so too are those not pursuing any particular religious path partially disabled in knowing aspects of all others. Home points to the existential dimension always at play in this kind of scholarship, and this essay illustrates what that dimension looks like in my case. Such examples suggest the complexity nestled in the idea of home, a complexity with its own comparative theological character. If home is meant to indicate a reference point, it is a moving target for all of us. This article is framed around three aspects of that complexity: home as where we come from, where we live, and where we are going.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42204076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dalit Rom-Shiloni. Voices from the Ruins: Theodicy and the Fall of Jerusalem in the Hebrew Bible","authors":"Xenia Ling-Lee Chan","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2022-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48474866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Anthea Butler. White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America","authors":"J. Hübner","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2022-0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47470576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kierkegaard's conceptualization of his aesthetic stage of existence is lacking even with a very unstinted acknowledgment of his undeniably profound and brilliant insights. For Kierkegaard the aesthetic stage is based only on the immediacy of feeling, thus a transitoriness that ultimately leads to boredom and despair. This presentation agrees with Adorno's triadic understanding of what the aesthetic means in Kierkegaard's aesthetic writings as opposed to his religious ones. It is argued in this presentation that Kierkegaard's aesthetic stage or sphere of existence is a good deal more than passion at the sensuous level. There are too many great artists who struggled and made their lives ethically, spiritually, or religiously meaningful in blatant contradiction of Kierkegaard's demeaning of the aesthetic stage of existence. Many artists would not accept Kierkegaard's a priori assumption that sensual immediacy is the basic state of the aesthetic individual. Nevertheless, Kierkegaard's profound insights into the aesthetic sense of live music performance are an invaluable result of his informed intuition and other aesthetic writings; i.e., he asserts in some writings that the aesthetic derives only from immediacy, yet there are other writings (e.g., on music and acting) from which one can infer a broader sense of the aesthetic. It is also possible to formulate a practical realization of Kierkegaard's aesthetic philosophy by way of his profound observations on dramatic acting and applying these uncannily insightful concepts to music performance.
{"title":"Kierkegaard, Music, and Its Relation to the Performing Arts","authors":"Yaroslav Senyshyn","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2023-0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2023-0002","url":null,"abstract":"Kierkegaard's conceptualization of his aesthetic stage of existence is lacking even with a very unstinted acknowledgment of his undeniably profound and brilliant insights. For Kierkegaard the aesthetic stage is based only on the immediacy of feeling, thus a transitoriness that ultimately leads to boredom and despair. This presentation agrees with Adorno's triadic understanding of what the aesthetic means in Kierkegaard's aesthetic writings as opposed to his religious ones. It is argued in this presentation that Kierkegaard's aesthetic stage or sphere of existence is a good deal more than passion at the sensuous level. There are too many great artists who struggled and made their lives ethically, spiritually, or religiously meaningful in blatant contradiction of Kierkegaard's demeaning of the aesthetic stage of existence. Many artists would not accept Kierkegaard's a priori assumption that sensual immediacy is the basic state of the aesthetic individual. Nevertheless, Kierkegaard's profound insights into the aesthetic sense of live music performance are an invaluable result of his informed intuition and other aesthetic writings; i.e., he asserts in some writings that the aesthetic derives only from immediacy, yet there are other writings (e.g., on music and acting) from which one can infer a broader sense of the aesthetic. It is also possible to formulate a practical realization of Kierkegaard's aesthetic philosophy by way of his profound observations on dramatic acting and applying these uncannily insightful concepts to music performance.","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135323955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Herman Bavinck. Reformed Ethics: The Duties of the Christian Life","authors":"Donald K. Mckim","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2022-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48140518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patricia G. Kirkpatrick and Pamela R. McCarroll, eds. Christian Theology After Christendom: Engaging the Thought of Douglas John Hall","authors":"Don Schweitzer","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2021-0080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2021-0080","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49048201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Allen G. Jorgensen. Indigenous and Christian Perspectives in Dialogue: Kairotic Place and Borders","authors":"Lori Ransom","doi":"10.3138/tjt-2022-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/tjt-2022-0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41209,"journal":{"name":"Toronto Journal of Theology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44571686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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