The Immanent Divine

God, Creation, and the Human Predicament

By: John J. Thatamanil

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While traditional Christian thought and spirituality have always affirmed the divine presence in human life, Thatamanil argues we have much to learn from non-dualistic Hindu thought, especially that of the eighth-century thinker Sankara, and from the Christian panentheism of Paul Tillich. Thatamanil compares their diagnoses and prognoses of the human predicament in light of their doctrine of God or Ultimate Reality. What emerges is a new theology of God and human beings, with a richer and more radical conception of divine immanence, a reconceived divine transcendence, and a keener sense of how the dynamic and active Spirit at work in us anchors real hope and deep joy. Using key insights from Christian and Hindu thought Thatamanil vindicates comparative theology, expands the vocabulary about the ineffable God, and arrives at a new construal of the problems and prospects of the human condition.

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Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Abbreviations	p. xix
The Immanent Divine and the Human Predicament	p. 1
How Far Is East from West? A Question for Comparative Theology	p. 1
Why Sankara, Why Tillich?	p. 7
A Method for Comparison: On the Idea of Comparative Categories	p. 12
The Human Predicament as Illness: The Medical Model as a Tool for Comparison	p. 16
Disputed Theological Questions: What Is at Stake in the Conversation?	p. 18
Is a Christian Nondualism Possible?	p. 22
Comparative Theology as Interfaith Dialogue in Search of Mutual Transformation	p. 23
A Concluding Note on the Term Immanence	p. 25
Sankara on the Human Predicament: Diagnosis and Etiology	p. 27
"The Hindu Refuses to Call You Sinners": Opening the Question of the Human Predicament in Advaita Vedanta	p. 27
Sankara's Anthropology: The Soul as Free Agent and Part of Brahman	p. 28
Sankara's Diagnosis of the Human Predicament: The Suffering of Samsara	p. 37
Sankara's Etiology of the Human Predicament	p. 45
The Impossible Possibility of Ignorance	p. 54
Sankara on Liberation from the Human Predicament: Prognosis and Therapy	p. 59
Is Healing Available Premortem or Only Postmortem?	p. 59
Knowing and Not Knowing Brahman: On Why Sankara Is Not a Mystic	p. 60
Sankara on Therapy: Preparing for and Becoming Established in Liberating Knowledge	p. 80
Sankara's Prognosis: On the Liberated Person and the Possibility of Action after Liberation	p. 83
Immanence and Transcendence in Sankara's Theology: On Apophatic Anthropology	p. 90
Tillich on the Human Predicament: Diagnosis and Etiology	p. 95
Priming the Comparative Pump: Where Do We Begin?	p. 95
Preliminary Reflections on Courage: Arjuna's Courage and the Courage of Faith	p. 96
Introducing Tillich's Ontological Apparatus	p. 103
Ontology and the Human Predicament: Tillich's Etiology	p. 110
Tillich's Diagnosis of the Human Predicament	p. 121
Tillich on Salvation as Ecstatic Healing: Prognosis and Therapy	p. 133
Ecstasy and Nonduality	p. 133
Transcendence and Immanence in Tillich's Theology	p. 136
God as Living; God as Spirit	p. 143
Tillich on Therapy: Salvation as Ecstatic Healing	p. 149
Tillich's Prognosis: Sanctification, Doubt, and the Ineradicable Fact of Estrangement	p. 163
Reimagining Immanence: Toward a Christian Nondualism	p. 169
Moving from Comparison to Construction	p. 169
Diagnosis: The Human Predicament as Self-Enclosed Finitude	p. 174
Comparing Etiologies	p. 177
Comparing Prognoses: Liberation and Salvation	p. 180
Evaluating the Medical Model	p. 182
Toward a Dynamic Apophatic Nondualism	p. 184
The Religious Possibilities Offered by Dynamic Nondualism	p. 195
Apophasis, Ecstasy, and Divine Immutability	p. 202
On the Coincidence between Immanence and Transcendence	p. 204
Glossary	p. 209
Index	p. 221
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