Thursday, June 23, 2022

A Theology has Hope

Soteriology

The beauty of the metaphysical descriptions of the Upanishads and Mahabharata

Orobindo translates Atithi and Brahmana into strangers in two places in his translation of the Upanishads

Eschatological and metaphysical differences and applications

Ethical monotheism of the Judaic religions - the widow, the stranger, the orphan and the oppressed - Hebrew Bible & Quran

The least and the lowliest, lepers, prostitutes, sinners and outcastes in Christianity

The Brahmanas in Hinduism

The origin, nature and teleology of penance is perhaps critical to the Hindu soteriology but renunciation instead of active love is prescribed.

Dravidra Narayanan is a modern coinage

In Christian terms, what are the salvific plans or how is salvation at work in Hinduism?

Christianity gives me the 'fullest' hope for Matrushka.

But just as the law is written in the fleshly hearts of men so is hope?

Hope cannot be one religion's monopoly.

I would like to explore this hope in Hinduism?

In multitudinous cases, the sacrifices and renunciations prescribed in Hindu scriptures matches or even surpass the Sermon on the mount if considered in terms of individual instances? For example, in one instance in Mahabharata, a Rishi reprimands his wife for not giving her body up to a Brahmana who demands for it.

Modern reformers in Hinduism like Mahatma Gandhi, Vivekananda, Raja Ram Mohan Roy and others preached the service of the poor and the oppressed - the outcastes.

But is there anything in Indian philosophical theology


The ascetic self: asceticism of love

A Christian anthropology has always been concerned with will and with hope  ... (Asceticism of desert)

THEOLOGY OF HOPE THROUGH ASCETICISM OF LOVE

'Black lives matter.' was diluted by 'All Lives Matter.'

Does the category of 'Atithi' dilute by being non-descriptive and general or is entirely different from descriptive categories like strangers, orphans, lepers, widows, prostitutes - the lowly and out castes in general

Kenosis and Anatta?

Staret and Guru?

Elder Zossima's Wisdom & St Iraeneus panentheism

Is Asian theology negative?

Is Asian theology negative and does that negate the kind of hope that the story of Matrushka necessitates.

 The episode of Sabari

The later bhakti traditions offer a theology of the 'least'

probe the meaning of the word 'Brahmana' and 'atithi'

An active love and charity

Not merely an asceticism of cosmological unity?

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