01630 a2200301 4500 1317080912 20250317111627.0 250312042016GB eng 9781317080916 Taylor & Francis GBP 46.99 BB 01 eng QRM thema QRD thema QRA thema HRC bic HRG bic HRA bic REL102000 bisac REL000000 bisac 205 bisac John N. Sheveland Piety and Responsibility Patterns of Unity in Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika 1 Oxford Routledge 20160422 224 p This book analyzes the writings of Karl Rahner, Karl Barth, and Vedanta Desika to disclose how each construes "piety" and "responsibility" as integral to each other. Each theologian expresses a fundamental unity of love of God and love of neighbour. Sheveland explores this unity in ecumenical and interreligious frameworks, showing how these authors privilege theology as practice, enactment, or simply as ethical. He uses the Renaissance genre of musical polyphony as a methodological tool by which to explore the aesthetic quality and the similarity-in-difference of the theological voices being compared. Polyphony's application to comparative theology includes the avoidance of caricature, domestication, and antagonism. In place of these is offered a fundamentally aesthetic paradigm by which to hear theological voices in terms of their unity-in-distinction. 6333 6333