April 10, 2009

Books

Double Vision

Beyond CompareSt. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to GodFrancis X. Clooney Georgetown University Press, $34.95, 288 pp.

James L. Fredericks

In the fall of 2000, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a declaration titled Dominus Iesus, reaffirming the uniqueness of Jesus Christ and the centrality of the church in the plan of salvation. The declaration criticized “the eclecticism of those who, in theological research, uncritically absorb ideas from a variety of philosophical and theological contexts (...)


 

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