A. J. Appasamy and his Reading of Rāmānuja
A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 8 December 2016
- ISBN 9780198791416
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 223x144x23 mm
- Weight 510 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). It argues for the distinctive theological voice of Appasamy, whose sacramental reading of the Gospel of John, influenced by Rāmānuja (1017-1137), opens up new Christological and comparative possibilities.
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In this work, Brian Philip Dunn focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian, A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). Appasamy developed what he called a 'bhakti' (devotional) approach to Christian theology, bringing his own primary text, the Gospel of John, into comparative interaction with the writings of the Hindu philosopher and theologian, Rāmānuja. Dunn's exposition here is of Appasamy's distinctive adaptation of Rāmānuja's 'Body of God' analogy and its application to a bhakti reading of John's Gospel. He argues throughout for the need to locate and understand theological language as embedded and embodied within the narrative and praxis of tradition and, for Appasamy and Rāmānuja, in their respective Anglican and Śrivaiṣṇava settings. Responding to Appasamy, Dunn proposes that the primary Johannine referent for divine embodiment is the temple and considers recent scholarship on Johannine 'temple Christology' in light of Śrivaiṣṇava conceptions of the temple and the temple deity. He then offers a constructive reading of the text as a temple procession, a heuristic device that can be newly considered in both comparative and devotional contexts today.
Brian Dunn's rich and perceptive study of Appasamy, which is capped by the author's own constructive exegetical and theological work, should cause comparative and Christian theologians to reexamine the thought of the intellectual pioneer.
Table of Contents:
An Introduction to Ayadurai Jesudason Appasamy
1 Comparative Method: Theology, Religion, or Tradition?
Pūrvapakṣa: 1922--1932 - Logos Christology
1 Uttarapakṣa: 1933--1950 - Spirit Christology
1 Recovering Rāmānuja's tradition
Siddhānta: A Johannine temple Christology
