Atonement and Comparative Theology
The Cross in Dialogue with Other Religions
Published by: Fordham University Press
Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
320 pages, 152.00 x 228.00 mm
Edited by Catherine Cornille
Contributions by Bede Benjamin Bidlack, Francis X. Clooney, Thierry-Marie Courau, S. Mark Heim, Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Leo D. Lefebure, Daniel A. Madigan, Marianne Moyaert, Joshua Ralston, Elochukwu Uzukwu, Klaus von Stosch and Michelle Voss Roberts
Published by: Fordham University Press
Series: Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions
320 pages, 152.00 x 228.00 mm
The central Christian belief in salvation through the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ remains one of the most intractable mysteries of Christian faith. Throughout history, it has given rise to various theories of atonement, many of which have been subject to critique as they no longer speak to contemporary notions of evil and sin or to current conceptions of justice. One of the important challenges for contemporary Christian theology thus involves exploring new ways of understanding the salvific meaning of the cross.
In Atonement and Comparative Theology, Christian theologians with expertise in Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, and African Religions reflect on how engagement with these traditions sheds new light on the Christian understanding of atonement by pointing to analogous structures of sin and salvation, drawing attention to the scandal of the cross as seen by the religious other, and re-interpreting aspects of the Christian understanding of atonement. Together, they illustrate the possibilities for comparative theology to deepen and enrich Christian theological reflection.
Introduction | 1
Catherine Cornille
Why Atonement?Who Needs It?
Atonement in Muslim-Christian Theological Engagement | 11
Daniel A. Madigan, S.J.
Christian Atonement Enlightened by a Buddhist Perspective on Craving | 40
Thierry-Marie Courau, O. P.
How Q 5:75 Can Help Christians Conceptualize Atonement | 61
Klaus von Stosch
Not for Myself Alone: Atonement and Penance After Daoism | 78
Bede Benjamin Bidlack
Suffering and the Scandal of the Cross
God’s Suffering in the Hindu-Christian Gaze | 105
Francis X. Clooney, S . J .
More Than Meets the Eye: The Cross as Maṇḍala | 130
Michelle Voss Roberts
Divine Suffering and Covenantal Belonging:
Considering the Atonement with Heschel and Moltmann | 149
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
The Clash and Continuity of Interpretation of Redemptive Suffering
Between African Religions and Christianity | 167
Elochukwu Uzukwu, C.S.Sp.
Rethinking Redemption
Redemptive Suffering After the Shoah:
Going Back and Forth Between Jewish and Christian Traditions | 189
Marianne Moyaert
Judgment on the Cross: Resurrection as Divine Vindication | 214
Joshua Ralston
“At One or Not At One?” Christian Atonement in Light of Buddhist Perspectives | 239
Leo D. Lefebure
How Empty Is the Cross? Realization and Novelty in Atonement | 259
S. Mark Heim
Bibliography | 281
List of Contributors | 301
Index | 305
Catherine Cornille is Professor of Comparative Theology at Boston College, where she holds the Newton College Alumnae Chair of Western Culture. She is the author of The Im-Possibility of Interreligious Dialogue and Meaning and Method in Comparative Theology.
Bede Benjamin Bidlack is an Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. He publishes in the areas of comparative theology, Daoist studies, theological anthropology, interreligious dialogue, and philosophy. He is the author of In Good Company: The Body and Divinization in the Thought of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, SJ and Daoist Xiao Yingsou (2015).
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His primary areas of Indological scholarship are theological commentarial writings in the Sanskrit and Tamil traditions of Hindu India. He has also written on the Jesuit missionary tradition, particularly in India, on the early Jesuit pan-Asian discourse on reincarnation, and on the dynamics of dialogue and interreligious learning in the contemporary world. His most recent books are Reading the Hindu and Christian Classics: Why and How Deep Learning Still Matters (2019) and Western Jesuit Scholars in India: Tracing their Paths, Reassessing Their Goals (2020).
Thierry-Marie Courau, O.P., is a Catholic theologian and Honorary Dean at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Sciences Theologicum, at the Catholic Institute of Paris, France (2011–2017). A member of the Dominican Order, he specializes in Tibetan Buddhism studies. He is President of the International Journal of Theology, Concilium. His most recent books are Le dialogue des rationalités culturelles et religieuses (2019), Le salut comme dialogue (2018), and La succession des exercices vers l’Éveil bouddhique (2017).
S. Mark Heim is the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. He has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology (1995), The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (2001), Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross (2006), and most recently, Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (2018).
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski is the Duncalf Villavaso Professor of Church History at Seminary of the Southwest in Austin, Texas. He works in the fields of comparative theology, Jewish-Christian relations, and Anglican studies. He is most recently the author of The More Torah, The More Life: A Christian Commentary on Mishnah Avot (2018). He is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church.
Leo D. Lefebure is the inaugural holder of the Matteo Ricci, S.J., Chair of Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of the forthcoming work Interreligious Relationships Transformed: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States; he is also the author of True and Holy: Christian Scripture and Other Religions (2014) and the co-author of The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada (2011). He is President of the Society for Buddhist Christian Studies, Research Fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Trustee Emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions.
Daniel A. Madigan, S.J., is Jeanette W. and Otto J. Ruesch Family Distinguished Jesuit Scholar, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, Senior Fellow of the Al-Waleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and Faculty Fellow of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University. He is also an Honorary Professorial Fellow of Australian Catholic University. From 2000 to 2007, Madigan was the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures at the Pontifical Gregorian University. Since 2012, he has been Chair of the Building Bridges Seminar, an annual week-long study session for Muslim and Christian scholars invited from all over the world.
Joshua Ralston is Reader in Christian-Muslim Relations at the University of Edinburgh and founder and director of the Christian-Muslim Studies Network. He is the author of Law and the Rule of God: A Christian Engagement with Shari‘a and co-editor of Church in the Age of Global Migration: A Moving Body (2015). He has published numerous essays and book chapters on Protestant theology, Christian Muslim dialogue, and political theology.
Elochukwu Uzukwu is the Rev. Pierre Schouver C.S.Sp. Endowed Chair in Mission at Duquesne University. His research interests are in the areas of liturgy-sacraments, ritual studies, ecclesiology, missiology, and contextual theology, with particular focus on continental Africa and Africa in the diaspora. He is author of God, Spirit, and Human Wholeness: Appropriating Faith and Culture in West African Style (2012) and Family of God: Africa’s Treasure, Reinventing Christianity and the World (in progress).
Klaus von Stosch holds the Schlegel Chair in Systematic Theology at Bonn University. His areas of research are comparative theology; faith and reason; the problem of evil; Christian theology responsive to Islam, especially Christology; and theology of the Trinity. His most recent books are Herausforderung Islam. Christliche Annaherungen (2016) and The Other Prophet: Jesus in the Qur’an (2019).
Michelle Voss Roberts is Professor of Theology and Principal at Emmanuel College, a multireligious theological school at the University of Toronto. Her published work in comparative theology includes Dualities: A Theology of Difference (2010), Tastes of the Divine: Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion (2014), and Body Parts: A Theological Anthropology (2017). With Chad Bauman, she is also the editor of the Routledge Handbook of Hindu-Christian Relations.
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