caa a22 4500 388114312 CHVBK 20180307125401.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0360966900031558 doi S0360966900031558 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0360966900031558 Duffy Stephen J. Loyola University, New Orleans A Theology of the Religions and/or a Comparative Theology? [Elektronische Daten] [Stephen J. Duffy] An important but little-noticed debate is quietly going on between some theologians of the religions and some comparative theologians. The former, without negating the need for comparative theology, insist on the need for a theology of the religions; the latter call for a moratorium on construction of theologies of religion and a focus instead on comparative work. This essay sides with the theologians of religion and argues that contrary to the one-sided position of the comparativists and the premature judgments of some theologians of the religions, there is a need for both a theology of the religions and comparative analysis and synthesis because the two are the distinct but inseparable and integral a priori and a posteriori moments of a single theological project which aims at bringing Christianity into fruitful engagement with the non-Christian traditions. Because this engagement is essential to Christianity, the present debate is an important one even though it goes on in a field little tended, unfortunately, but many theologians. Copyright © The College Theology Society 1999 Horizons Cambridge University Press 26/1(1999), 105-115 0360-9669 26:1<105 1999 26 HOR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900031558 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0360966900031558 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Duffy Stephen J. Loyola University, New Orleans NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Horizons Cambridge University Press 26/1(1999), 105-115 0360-9669 26:1<105 1999 26 HOR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge