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https://doi.org/10.32728/tab.12.2014.22
The "Song of God" as a Journey of Discipleship: A Reflection on the Bhagavad-gita and Cristian Perspectives
Kenneth Valpey
Abstract
This essay offers a brief exploration, in the spirit of interreligious dialogue, of how Hindu thought may be brought into meaningful conversation with Christian thought. Although an unbridgeable gap is often imagined to exist between these two traditions, particularly with respect to cosmic and historical worldviews, here is suggested that this gap may be productively overcome by focusing on representations of discipleship in the Gospels and the Bhagavad-gītā, such that each tradition has something to learn from the other.
Keywords
Hindu-Christian dialogue; Bhagavad-gita; cross-cultural studies; Marcus Borg; ancient education; Biblical hermeneutics; historical versus cyclical time; scriptural narratives
Hrčak ID:
137519
URI
Publication date:
1.10.2014.
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