His Hiding Place Is Darkness
A Hindu-Catholic Theopoetics of Divine Absence
- 208 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
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.
Remarkably, the pairing of these texts is grounded not in a general theory of religion, but in an engagement with two unexpected sources: the theopoetics, theodramatics, and theology of the 20th-century Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, and the intensely perceived and written poetry of Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham. How we read and write on religious matters is transformed by this rare combination of voices in what is surely a unique and important contribution to comparative studies and religious hermeneutics.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Series Page
- Epigraphs
- 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
- Series List