The Body Divine : The Symbol of the Body in the Works of Teilhard de Chardin and Ramanuja

Name: The Body Divine
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521046695
Price: 6700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521046695

by Anne Hunt Overzee

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions

ISBN-10 0521046696

ISBN-13 9780521046695

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Dec 3rd, 2007

Print length 236 Pages

Weight 367 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.50 x 1.40 cms

Product Classification: Theology Theology

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The book makes an significant contribution to comparative theology, and explores the wide-ranging implications of a religious symbol whose potency is perennial, cross-cultural, and of continuing contemporary importance.

The Body Divine explores the ways in which two spiritual teachers, one Christian (Teilhard de Chardin) and one Hindu (Ramanuja) have seen the world as inherently divine, and have presented this insight theologically through the use of a symbol, that of the 'body of the divine' (the body of Christ/Brahman). In a careful study of their beliefs, Dr Hunt Overzee shows how both thinkers came to understand reality in terms of consciousness, believing that salvation/release is realized through attaining the Lord. This goal is approximated through a changed view of things, in which everything is seen to belong to the Lord and to manifest his presence. The author compares those spiritual practices taught by each thinker in order to help people attain the Lord, and places these practices in a broader context of practices for transforming consciousness.

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