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Divergent Traditions, Converging Faiths explores the relevance and usefulness of a comparative, inter-religious method for contemporary Christian theology, using the work of Ernst Troeltsch as a springboard. It also examines pertinent aspects of the work of Schleiermacher, Tillich, Raimon Panikkar, and Francis X. Clooney, and develops a test case involving a comparison of Hindu and Christian concepts of grace. The guiding question is, should contemporary Christian theologians take the doctrines of non-Christians into account in their constructive doctrinal work, and if so, how?

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The Author: Joseph Molleur is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theology at Boston College. He received his Ph.D. in systematic and comparative theology from the Boston College-Andover Newton Theological School Joint Doctoral Program. He has published articles in several professional journals.

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