A. J. Appasamy and his Reading of R?m?nuja by Dunn, Brian Philip;

A Comparative Study in Divine Embodiment

Series: Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs;

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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

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 R?m?nuja (1017-1137), opens up new Christological and comparative possibilities.

Long description:

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, R?m?nuja. Dunn's exposition here is of Appasamy's distinctive adaptation of R?m?nuja'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 R?m?nuja, in their respective Anglican and Śrivai??ava 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 Śrivai??ava 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.