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A Method for Comparative Studies in Religious Visual Arts: Approaching Architecture

A Method for Comparative Studies in Religious Visual Arts: Approaching Architecture A METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS VISUAL ARTS: APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE JOHN RENARD Saint Louis University Comparative textual studies have been among the principal tools of students of religion and theology for several generations. Christian theologians no longer automatically dismiss courses in "Comparative Religion" as a convenient concession to the market forces at work on undergraduate curricula. Though there remains considerable breadth of opinion as to how and where to use the results of those comparative studies, the suggestion that serious scholars need increasingly to take some account of important texts beyond those of their own confessional canons no longer raises many eyebrows. A theological sub-discipline called comparative theology is emerging as a context within which scholars can both consider questions of confessional import and acknowledge that other traditions have wrestled with analogous issues. Comparative theology is developing as a way of evaluating all theological traditions seriously and non reductively: the others are not reduced to cannon fodder, nor is one's own reduced to merely one option among many as a corollary to the argument that all traditions ultimately spring from a single universal religious insight or experience. Texts have, however, offered scholars a selective, even elitist, view http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Religion and the Arts Brill

A Method for Comparative Studies in Religious Visual Arts: Approaching Architecture

Renard, John
Religion and the Arts , Volume 1 (3): 24 – Jan 1, 1996
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A METHOD FOR COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN RELIGIOUS VISUAL ARTS: APPROACHING ARCHITECTURE JOHN RENARD Saint Louis University Comparative textual studies have been among the principal tools of students of religion and theology for several generations. Christian theologians no longer automatically dismiss courses in "Comparative Religion" as a convenient concession to the market forces at work on undergraduate curricula. Though there remains considerable breadth of opinion as to how and where to use the results of those comparative studies, the suggestion that serious scholars need increasingly to take some account of important texts beyond those of their own confessional canons no longer raises many eyebrows. A theological sub-discipline called comparative theology is emerging as a context within which scholars can both consider questions of confessional import and acknowledge that other traditions have wrestled with analogous issues. Comparative theology is developing as a way of evaluating all theological traditions seriously and non reductively: the others are not reduced to cannon fodder, nor is one's own reduced to merely one option among many as a corollary to the argument that all traditions ultimately spring from a single universal religious insight or experience. Texts have, however, offered scholars a selective, even elitist, view

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Published: Jan 1, 1996

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