Krsna and Christ
Body-Divine Relation in the Thought of Sankara, Ramanuja, and Classical Christian Orthodoxy
Paternoster Theological Monographs
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
326 Pages, 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.65 in
- Paperback
- 9781556353246
- Published: September 2011
- Hardcover
- 9781498249522
- Published: September 2011
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This work compares the Krsnavatara (Krsna in his avatara doctrines of Sankara and Ramanuja and the incarnation of Christ as represented by classical Christian orthodoxy, and draws out comparative theological and soteriological implications. It does so first by examining the epistemologies, theologies and world views of Sankara and Ramanuja, and the theology and world view of classical Christian orthodoxy, so that, second, an adequate foundation and subsequent thorough representation of avatara and incarnation might be accomplished, in order that, third, accurate comparisons may be drawn between avatara and incarnation. The result of this study is a demonstration that many of the popularly held similarities between avatara and incarnation are superficial, and that therefore careful consideration of epistemologies and ontologies should be undertaken when comparing theologies and soteriologies pertinent to avatara and incarnation.