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Theology Without Walls with John J. Thatamanil (Radical Theology)
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 01:28:57
Publish Date: 2022-02-01 17:58:00
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John J. Thatamanil is Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He is the author of The Immanent Divine: God, Creation, and the Human Predicament. An East-West Conversation and, most recently, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity (Fordham, 2020). Presently, he is working on a book entitled, Desiring Truth: The Quest for Interreligious Wisdom. He is a past President of the North American Paul Tillich Society and the current Chair of the AAR’s Theological Education Committee. He teaches a wide variety of courses including, “Hindu Religious Thought and Practice,” “Buddhist-Christian Dialogue,” and “Paul Tillich as Public Theologian,” “Process Theology,” “Double Belonging: On Multiple Religious Participation.” Thatamanil is an Anglican/Episcopalian—a recently ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of Canada—who also reads and practices in traditions of Hindu and Buddhist nondualism.

In this episode, we discuss:

  1. The de-religionization of religion.
  2. John’s cultural dislocation and how it informed his approach to theology.
  3. Truth and desire.
  4. What does it mean to have a multi-religious identity?
  5. The difference between salad bar spirituality and multi-religious identity. 
  6. 3 kinds of religious wonder.
  7. The multi-religious theologian as the embodiment of the hospitality of receiving.

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