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Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos and Tsong Kha Pa (review)

Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos and Tsong Kha Pa (review) BOOK REVIEWS DIVINE CONTINGENCY: THEOLOGIES OF DIVINE EMBODIMENT IN MAXIMOS AND TSONG KHA PA. By Thomas Cattoi. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 7. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2008. xiii + 307 pp. Cattoi's book is both a landmark work in the genre of comparative theology and a fascinating and accessible exploration of Maximos the Confessor (580­622) and Tsong kha pa (1359­1427)--two brilliant synthesists whose architectonic visions became normative for their respective traditions. The leitmotif of the study is the question of the soteriological value of the natural world--an emphasis shared by Maximos and Tsong kha pa, according to Cattoi. He engages this theme by setting Maximos's Chalcedonian understanding of the created order as eschatologically oriented logoi, into conversation with Tsong kha pa's understanding of the nonduality of conventional and ultimate reality according to the Mahayana concept of "non-abiding nirvana" (apratishtit). In the process, Cattoi explores what defines Buddhism as Buddhism and Christianity as Christianity--in ways that are both juxtapositional and mutually illuminating. Cattoi's opening chapters compare and contrast the soteriologies of Tibetan Buddhism and patristic orthodoxy. He begins in the Christian world with Origen and Evagrios Pontikos, whose pre-Chalcedonian schemata precipitated the controversies that called forth Maximos's syntheses as a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Buddhist-Christian Studies University of Hawai'I Press

Divine Contingency: Theologies of Divine Embodiment in Maximos and Tsong Kha Pa (review)

Horton-Parker, Skip.
Buddhist-Christian Studies , Volume 31 (1) – Nov 4, 2011
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BOOK REVIEWS DIVINE CONTINGENCY: THEOLOGIES OF DIVINE EMBODIMENT IN MAXIMOS AND TSONG KHA PA. By Thomas Cattoi. Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies 7. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2008. xiii + 307 pp. Cattoi's book is both a landmark work in the genre of comparative theology and a fascinating and accessible exploration of Maximos the Confessor (580­622) and Tsong kha pa (1359­1427)--two brilliant synthesists whose architectonic visions became normative for their respective traditions. The leitmotif of the study is the question of the soteriological value of the natural world--an emphasis shared by Maximos and Tsong kha pa, according to Cattoi. He engages this theme by setting Maximos's Chalcedonian understanding of the created order as eschatologically oriented logoi, into conversation with Tsong kha pa's understanding of the nonduality of conventional and ultimate reality according to the Mahayana concept of "non-abiding nirvana" (apratishtit). In the process, Cattoi explores what defines Buddhism as Buddhism and Christianity as Christianity--in ways that are both juxtapositional and mutually illuminating. Cattoi's opening chapters compare and contrast the soteriologies of Tibetan Buddhism and patristic orthodoxy. He begins in the Christian world with Origen and Evagrios Pontikos, whose pre-Chalcedonian schemata precipitated the controversies that called forth Maximos's syntheses as a

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