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Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
Gloria Maité Hernández, "Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics" (Oxford UP, 2021)
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47 minutes
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Dec 16, 2021
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Gloria Maité Hernández's Savoring God: Comparative Theopoetics (Oxford UP, 2021) compares two mystical works central to the Christian Discalced Carmelite and the Hindu Bhakti traditions: the sixteenth-century Spanish Cántico espiritual (Spiritual Canticle), by John of the Cross, and the Sanskrit Rāsa Līlā, originated in the oral tradition. These texts are examined alongside theological commentaries: for the Cántico, the Comentarios written by John of the Cross on his own poem; for Rāsa Līlā, the foundational commentary by Srīdhara Swāmi along with commentaries by the sixteenth-century theologian Jīva Goswāmī, from the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava school, and other Gauḍīya theologians.
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Released:
Dec 16, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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