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Introduction Introduction
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Sara Grant, RSCJ (1922–2000) Sara Grant, RSCJ (1922–2000)
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Early Influences (1922–1956) Early Influences (1922–1956)
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Departure for India and the Challenge of Advaita Departure for India and the Challenge of Advaita
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Grant’s Encounters with Advaita Vedānta Grant’s Encounters with Advaita Vedānta
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Grant on “Relation” Grant on “Relation”
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Key Relational Terms in Śaṁkara Key Relational Terms in Śaṁkara
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Returning to Aquinas Returning to Aquinas
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Whose Śaṁkara? Which Aquinas? Whose Śaṁkara? Which Aquinas?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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3 The Relation between the World and God in Śaṁkara and Thomas: Sara Grant’s Case for a Form of Christ Ian Non-Dualism
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The main focus of Chapter 3 is a close reading of Grant’s interpretation of Advaita Vedānta and her work on the concept of relation in Śaṁkara and Thomas, for it is here that she locates the possibility of moving beyond contrastive distinctions between God and world, and toward a ‘non-dualist’ Christianity. As the author has already indicated, his exploration of her work points not so much to a theological lacuna within Christianity which can only be filled from without, as to deep resonances between the spiritualities of Grant’s own Catholic tradition and the wisdom traditions of Vedāntic Hinduism. The exciting result of this Scholastic-Vedāntic comparative engagement is, according to Grant, the Copernican revolution which it could bring about in Christian theological understandings of God—not as a distant entity ‘out there’ to whom many people find it increasingly hard to relate, but as the transcendent and yet immanent Self of our own self always already present in creation by the very fact of the world ‘being there’ at all.
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