Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar
Runner-up for the 2025 Catholic Media Association (CMA) Book Award for Theological and Philosophical Studies Title This Open Access autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he...
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| description | Runner-up for the 2025 Catholic Media Association (CMA) Book Award for Theological and Philosophical Studies Title This Open Access autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical, lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism, as professor and Catholic priest, and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now, in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian and Hindu, is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments, as well as in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner. What Clooney has learnt and written must be understood in terms of a love of Christ deeply informed by a Hindu instinct for loving God without reserve. A fundamental spiritual disposition — intuitions of God present everywhere — has energized his work over his long career, love giving direction and body to his professional academic work. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1779562026-06-22T05:41:39Z Hindu and Catholic, Priest and Scholar Clooney, Francis X. Intellectual autobiography Comparative theology Interreligious participations Scholar-practitioner Experience of God Vatican 2 Catholic perspective Thomistic-plus nature of Jesuit studies Jesuit Interfaith world Hindu studies Christian spiritualities Hindu wisdom and piety thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity::QRMB Christian Churches, denominations, groups::QRMB1 Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism::QRDP Hindu life and practice thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general::QRAC Comparative religion thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNB Biography: general::DNBX Biography: religious and spiritual::DNBX1 Autobiography: religious and spiritual thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVG Theology thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs Runner-up for the 2025 Catholic Media Association (CMA) Book Award for Theological and Philosophical Studies Title This Open Access autobiography traces Francis X. Clooney's intellectual and spiritual journey from middle-class American Catholicism to a lifelong study of Hinduism. It explains how he came to fashion comparative theology as a way of learning interreligiously that is boldly intellectual and deeply personal and practical, lived out in intersections of his roles as theologian and scholar of Hinduism, as professor and Catholic priest, and over the tumultuous decades from the 1960s until now, in his role as Parkman Professor of Divinity, Harvard University. Clooney sheds fresh and realistic light on the idea and ideal of scholar-practitioner, since his wide learning, Christian and Hindu, is grounded in his Catholic and Jesuit commitments, as well as in a commensurate learning with respect to several Hindu traditions that are most accessible to scholars willing to learn empathetically and in a participatory manner. What Clooney has learnt and written must be understood in terms of a love of Christ deeply informed by a Hindu instinct for loving God without reserve. A fundamental spiritual disposition — intuitions of God present everywhere — has energized his work over his long career, love giving direction and body to his professional academic work. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. 2026-06-22T05:41:38Z 2026-06-22T05:41:38Z 2026-06-21T09:15:53Z 2024 book book ONIX_20260621T103019_9780567710260_62 https://doi.org/10.5040/9780567710277?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/114188 9780567710260 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/177956 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/114188/1/9780567710260.pdf Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) T&T Clark b7fec79e-c133-4cb3-9544-88060a4d4e06 9780567710260 T&T Clark 208 London open access |
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