Seeing Through Texts: Doing Theology Among the Srivaisnavas of South India (S U N Y Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions) PDF
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cover cover next page > title: Seeing Through Texts : Doing Theology Among the Sråivaisnavas of South India SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions author: Clooney, Francis Xavier. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 0791429954 print isbn13: 9780791429952 ebook isbn13: 9780585042770 language: English subject Nammåa_lvåar.--Tiruvåaymoli, Nammåa_lvåar--Religion, Sråi Vaishnava (Sect)--Doctrines. publication date: 1996 lcc: PL4758.9.N3155T5eb ddc: 294.5/95 subject: Nammåa_lvåar.--Tiruvåaymoli, Nammåa_lvåar--Religion, Sråi Vaishnava (Sect)--Doctrines. cover next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_0.html[21.03.2011 17:59:46] page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i Seeing Through Texts < previous page page_i next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_i.html[21.03.2011 18:04:18] page_ii < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii SUNY Series, Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions Paul J. Griffiths and Laurie L. Patton, Editors < previous page page_ii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_ii.html[21.03.2011 18:04:18] page_iii < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Seeing Through Texts Doing Theology among the Srivaisnavas *of South India Francis X. Clooney, S.J. State University of New York Press < previous page page_iii next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_iii.html[21.03.2011 18:04:18] page_iv < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv Chapter 5 contains material reprinted from Prayer by Hans Urs von Balthasar, by permission of Ignatius Press, © 1986. Chapter 5 also contains material reprinted from The Journey of the Mind to God by Bonaventure, translated by Philotheus Boehner, edited by Stephen F. Brown, by permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., © 1993. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1996 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y. 12246 Production by M. R. Mulholland Marketing by Theresa A. Swierzowski Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clooney, Francis Xavier, 1950- Seeing through texts: doing theology among the Srivaisnavas * of South India / Francis X. Clooney. p. cm. (SUNY series, toward a comparative philosophy of religions) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-2995-4 (hardcover: alk. paper). ISBN 0-7914-2996-2 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Nammalvar*, Tiruvaymoli* 2. Nammalvar*Religion. 3. Sri* Vaishnava* (Sect)Doctrines. I. Title. II. Series. PL.4758.9.N3155T53296 1996 294.5'95dc20 95-35858 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 < previous page page_iv next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_iv.html[21.03.2011 18:04:19] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > Page ix 102 V. Theologizing Tiruvaymoli * 1. Boundaries 2. Tiruvaymoli as Map 3. Desire in the Text a. The Desire to Serve b. The Desire to See 111 VI. Reading, Alone or with Others Chapter Three: Tiruvaymolias Meditation, Narrative and Drama: Reading with the Acaryas* 118 I. Satakopan*: Anguished Soul, Best of Theologians 1. The Plight of Satakopan 2. The Perfect Theologian 127 II. The Theological Problem of Vision 1. Ramanuja on the (Indirect) Experience of God 2. The Acaryas' Reading of the Problem of Vision in Tiruvaymoli a. Looking for God b. On Not Quite Seeing God: Some Examples c. Visualization d. As Near as One Can Get to Vision 144 III. Tiruvaymoli as Meditation 1. Tiruvaymoli as the Act of Meditation 154 IV. Tiruvaymoli as Dramatic Narrative 1. The Preliminaries 2. Interpreting the Divine Silence: A Brief Theodicy 3. Resolution and Union file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_ix.html[21.03.2011 18:04:19] page_ix < previous page page_ix next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_ix.html[21.03.2011 18:04:19] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v Dedicated to: Ignatius Hirudayam, S.J. (1910-1995) A.K. Ramanujan (1929-1993) Rise, come near them, pay your respects! Holy verses on their tongues, they never leave the pure path of knowledge rich with flowers, incense, lamps, sandal scent, pure water, devoted, the Lord's people, they approach and reverence the one who never fails: our world is full because of such people. Tiruvaymoli * V.29 < previous page page_v next page > If you like this book, buy it! file:///C|/Clooney_Seeing%20Through%20Texts/files/page_v.html[21.03.2011 18:04:19] page_vii < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Foreword xiii Preface xvii Chapter One: Taking a First Look 5 I. Some Opening Questions 9 II. Getting Inside Tiruvaymoli * 13 III. Pondering the Author: Sifting the Multiple Contexts 1. Locating Satakopan* Historically 2. Finding Satakopan in his Songs 3. Satakopan Under the Tamarind Tree: Learning from Hagiography 25 IV. Joining the Conversation: Tiruvaymoli and its Acaryas* 1. Introducing the Acaryas and What They Thought 2. The Commentarial Conversation 36 V. Being a Reader of Tiruvaymoli, Now 1. Comparative, Theological Commitments 2. This Particular Venture: Seeing Christianity and Srivaisnavism*Together 3. This Theologian 47 VI. 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