C Cornille

Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita (Christian Commentaries on Non-christian Sacred Texts, 1) C Cornille

"From T. S. Eliot to Bede Griffiths, many a Christian thinker has found in the Bhagavad Gita a source of genuine spiritual insight and inspiration. In this collection of Christian commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, Christian theologians and scholars of Hinduism offer a variety of perspectives on the text, using different commentarial approaches and styles, from close textual analysis and exegetical comparison to more general theological reflection on the text, from comparison of the Gita with a particular Christian classic to a focus on specific religious categories such as detachment, incarnation, and eschatology. While some contributions focus mainly on the similarities between Christian thought and the Gita, others engage differences in a mutually critical and constructive way. Each of these commentaries offers a distinctive lens through which Christians may read the Bhagavad Gita, and together they point to the promise of interreligious hermeneutics, of the religious reading of a sacred text from another religious tradition."