| Foreword | 5 |
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| Preface | 8 |
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| Contents | 10 |
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| Chapter 1 Introduction: Comparative Theologies and Multiple Modernities | 12 |
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| Postcolonial God’s Mission and Comparative Study | 13 |
| Comparative Studies of Religion and Multiple Modernities | 14 |
| “Analogical” Comparative Theology | 18 |
| “Commentarial” Comparative Theology and | 20 |
| A New Comparative Theology and Multiple Modernities | 23 |
| Organization of Themes and New Orientation | 24 |
| Chapter 2 Comparative Theology, Religious Discourse, and Phenomenological Imagination | 31 |
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| Religion and Society | 32 |
| Phenomenology: Intentionality and Lifeworld | 35 |
| Phenomenology and Culture as Semantics | 37 |
| Theological Phenomenology and the Word of God | 39 |
| Paul Tillich and Comparative Theology | 41 |
| A New Comparative Theology: Problematization and Immanent Critique | 42 |
| Archeology and Critical, Social Analysis | 44 |
| Correlational Research and Historical-Critical Method | 46 |
| A Note in Transition | 47 |
| Chapter 3 Comparative Theology of Justification and Interreligious Learning: Martin Luther and Shinran Shonin | 52 |
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| Honen and Pure Land Teaching in Japan | 53 |
| Shinran’s Life: Formative Period and Exile | 54 |
| Shinran’s Breakthrough to the Vow of Amida | 55 |
| Luther, Justification, and Grace of Christ | 56 |
| Luther and Medieval Teaching of Justification | 57 |
| Luther’s Teaching of Justification: Forensic and Effective | 58 |
| Historical Resource and Reading Together: Faith and Grace | 60 |
| Problematization: Buddha Nature and Other Power | 62 |
| Historical Encounter: Faith and Buddha Nature | 64 |
| Conclusion: Self-Renewal, Solidarity, and Universal Grace | 66 |
| Chapter 4 Totaliter Aliter, God’s Mission, and the Postcolonial | 73 |
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| God’s Mission in Postcolonial Background | 74 |
| Reconciliation and Missional Ecclesiology | 75 |
| Mission and Solidarity with the World | 76 |
| The Wholly Other in Speech-Act and Phenomenological Hermeneutic | 78 |
| Gospel, Culture, and Religion | 80 |
| Culture and Religion as Ensemble of the Text | 82 |
| Barth, World Christianity, and Postcolonial Orientation | 83 |
| Totaliter aliter and Postcolonial Theology | 85 |
| Chapter 5 Barth and Relational Theology | 90 |
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| The Basic Structure of the Trinity | 91 |
| God in Self-Relatedness and God for Us | 92 |
| “God’s Being in Becoming” and | 94 |
| The Trinitarian Foundation of Gracious Election | 95 |
| and Communion of Grace | 98 |
| Barth’s Critical View of Augustine and the Coming God | 100 |
| The Humanity of God and Assumption of Human Flesh | 104 |
| “God Is” in Coming and Transforming Reality | 107 |
| Chapter 6 Phenomenological Elucidation: Karl Barth and Emmanuel Levinas | 112 |
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| Levinas’s Phenomenology and Comparative Theology | 112 |
| The Biblical Thought Form: Levinas and Barth | 114 |
| Barth’s Critical Analysis of Heidegger’s Ontology | 116 |
| Levinas, Onto-Theo-Logy, and the Prophetic Hermeneutic | 119 |
| Barth and Levinas: Transcendence and the Idea of the Holy | 122 |
| and Analogical Art of Structure | 124 |
| Some Clarification: The Complex Structure of Analogical Relationality | 126 |
| God of Israel, Jewish Exegesis, Viva Vox Teaching | 129 |
| Torah Hermeneutic and Language | 131 |
| Barth and Theological Hermeneutics | 133 |
| Conclusion: Abraham’s Journey Against Odysseus | 134 |
| Chapter 7 Theological Audacity, Analogical Relationality, and Religions | 142 |
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| Theological Epistemology and Analogical Mode of Rationality | 143 |
| Analogical Actualism and | 143 |
| The and Analogical Reasoning | 145 |
| Analogical Relationality and Solidarity with the World | 145 |
| Analogical Relationality and Hermeneutical Circle | 147 |
| Critical Note in Transition | 148 |
| Barth and Feuerbach’s Critique of Religion | 150 |
| Barth’s Way: From Christ to Religion | 151 |
| Mysticism and Atheism | 152 |
| Critique, Recognition, and Solidarity in the Study of Religion | 153 |
| Critical Conclusion: Irregular Style in Speech-Act and Political Responsibility | 155 |
| Excursus: and | 157 |
| Chapter 8 Barth, Comparative Theology, and Multiple Modernities | 165 |
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| Barth and Pure Land Buddhism | 165 |
| Critical Exegesis: Amida Grace and Buddha Nature | 167 |
| The Name Jesus Christ and Its Irregular Horizon | 168 |
| Speech-Act Theology in Correlation Model | 169 |
| Barth, Theology of Religions, and “Postliberal” Comparative Theology | 171 |
| Barth’s Fragmentary Reflection: Wisdom in Other Religions and Comparative Study | 174 |
| Barth and “Speech-Act” Comparative Theology | 175 |
| Barth and Multiple Modernities | 177 |
| Chapter 9 Ernst Troeltsch, Historical Method, and Comparative Theology | 183 |
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| Christian Social Teaching and Sociology | 184 |
| Christian Ethics and Social Context | 185 |
| Historical Method and Model of Involvement | 186 |
| Hermeneutic Inquiry and Historical Method | 188 |
| Religious a Priori and Comparative Study of Religions | 191 |
| Toeltsch’s Self-Expression for Religious Studies | 192 |
| Phenomenological Clarification and Revision | 193 |
| Troeltsch and Multiple Modernities | 195 |
| , Faith Epistemology, Critical Method | 198 |
| in Wider Horizon and Troeltsch Renewal | 200 |
| Critical Conclusion: Comparative Theology: Solidarity and Emancipation | 201 |
| Chapter 10 Comparative Theology and Interreligious Solidarity Ethic: A Critical Appraisal of Weber | 207 |
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