Comparative Theology in the Contemporary Australian Context

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" Comparative Theology in the Contemporary Australian Context "
Anita C. Ray

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1069004
Doc. No	:	LA112633
Call No	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00302003‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Anita C. Ray
Title & Author	:	Comparative Theology in the Contemporary Australian Context [Article]\ Anita C. Ray
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	International Journal of Asian Christianity
Date	:	2020
Volume/ Issue Number	:	3/2
Page No	:	139–151
Abstract	:	This essay examines the practice of comparative theology within the culturally and religiously plural landscape of contemporary Australia. Tracing the early stages of the discipline in Australia to the Faculty of Theology and Philosophy at Australian Catholic University (acu) in 2012, the paper tracks its subsequent progress in the vibrant Asia-Pacific region. For the sake of clarity, I investigate a specific example of comparative theology, testing the feasibility of an engagement between Anglo-Celtic Christians and Indigenous Australian peoples. Seeking greater theological depth, I isolate a precise theme—the creation of the universe—and position the Indigenous viewpoint within the oral ‘Dreaming’ myths of the central Australian desert. The Christian perspective derives from written Biblical sources.
Descriptor	:	‘Dreaming’
Descriptor	:	Asian Studies
Descriptor	:	Asia-Pacific
Descriptor	:	ecology
Descriptor	:	immanence
Descriptor	:	indigenous Australian peoples
Descriptor	:	orality and textuality
Descriptor	:	Religion in Asia
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Theology and World Christianity
Descriptor	:	World Christianity
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/25424246-00302003‬