The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism

with the true God, it is possible and necessary to know this God correctly. Proper exegesis and clear reasoning will indicate th ...

Whether or not one agrees that it makes sense to claim that God can assume a physical body, I suggest that in the Hindu context ...

f) The appeal to revelation Our sixth example of a kind of discussion that is most properly termed “theological” has to do with ...

in the observer. Perhaps things are as they are because of an individual and even cosmic confusion which distorts reality and al ...

The intermediate stage, manana, is the reasoning which interests us here as properly theological reasoning. It opens in both dir ...

rising sun. Based in revelation and open to a more experiential completion, this reasoning, supported by both the Cha ̄ndogyaand ...

seriously doubts about the inference of a world-maker. One cannot know God without attributing some characteristics to him, whic ...

broader range of religious literature, the fact of commentary can be an import- ant clue to the presence of theological discours ...

Theology within a community at home with theology Finally, it is worth observ- ing that theology does not occur in isolation fro ...

to mark off theology as the exclusive preserve of theologians – it must remain intellectual, arguable, etc., and surely others c ...

(s ́ı ̄ks.a ̄), metrics (chandas), grammar (vya ̄karan.a), etymology (nirukta), astrology (jyotis.a), rubrics (kalpa). Taken in ...

is not to determine a conclusive list of major Hindu theologians and theological works, but rather to illustrate the nature of t ...

If we can admit that a tradition need not be focused on God to be theological, we can recognize many writings in the Mı ̄ma ̄m.s ...

TheVivekacud.a ̄man.i(after 800 ce) is a work of 580 (mostly) two-line verses.^37 It is implicitly and sometimes explicitly stru ...

which itself has a kind of philosophical focus in its concern for the objects of knowledge: inert material reality; the individu ...

in honor of the Goddess Laks.mı ̄. Though florid in its descriptions and not easily read as a treatise in Goddess theology, comm ...

since it also presents its arguments in a way that appears final and intended to preclude further debate, perhaps it strives to ...

Second, as conceded above, I admit that since we are speaking ofHinduthe- ology and not just theology, the final test must occur ...

even after determining that no one term adequately translates “philosophy.” See Halbfass, India and Europe, “Dars ́ana, Anviks.i ...

11 Albany: State University of New York, 1997. 12 Richmond, UK: Curzon Press, 2000. 13 In what follows, I refer to Sanskrit-lang ...