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A. J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja
Brian Philip Dunn
其他書名
A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment
出版Oxford University Press, 2016-12-01
主題Religion / Christian Theology / ChristologyReligion / Christian Theology / GeneralReligion / Hinduism / GeneralReligion / Theism
ISBN01925089629780192508966
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QSqhDQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In this work, Brian Philip Dunn focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian, A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). Appasamy developed what he called a 'bhakti' (devotional) approach to Christian theology, bringing his own primary text, the Gospel of John, into comparative interaction with the writings of the Hindu philosopher and theologian, Rāmānuja. Dunn's exposition here is of Appasamy's distinctive adaptation of Rāmānuja's 'Body of God' analogy and its application to a bhakti reading of John's Gospel. He argues throughout for the need to locate and understand theological language as embedded and embodied within the narrative and praxis of tradition and, for Appasamy and Rāmānuja, in their respective Anglican and Śrivaiṣṇava settings. Responding to Appasamy, Dunn proposes that the primary Johannine referent for divine embodiment is the temple and considers recent scholarship on Johannine 'temple Christology' in light of Śrivaiṣṇava conceptions of the temple and the temple deity. He then offers a constructive reading of the text as a temple procession, a heuristic device that can be newly considered in both comparative and devotional contexts today.