The study of any theologian is enhanced by the concurrent study of an other theologian from an other theological tradition. Such study provides an opportunity for comparison, that practice within which the same can be interrogated by difference. This interrogation elucidates details of the same that would otherwise remain submerged in obviousness. Difference exposes the obvious and renders it contingent rather than inevitable. Thus, the encounter with difference frees us from the constraints of inheritance, thereby expanding our range of spiritual opportunities. Difference gives us freedom. We know more, and in more detail, when the familiar is related to the unfamiliar. This article illustrates the above assertions by comparing the doctrines of scripture of two preeminent theologians: Friedrich Schleiermacher, an eighteenth–nineteenth-century Protestant Christian, and Rāmānuja, an eleventh–twelfth-century Śrīvaiṣṇava Hindu. In so doing, this article provides an example of critical comparative theology or theology that uses the critical power of comparison. Such comparison generates deeper insight and broader understanding of our own position within the array of theological options available to humankind.

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Rāmānuja 和 Schleiermacher 关于圣经：比较神学论文

对来自其他神学传统的其他神学家的同时研究会增强对任何神学家的研究。这种研究提供了一个比较的机会，在这种实践中，可以通过差异来质疑相同的内容。这种审讯阐明了相同的细节，否则这些细节将被淹没在显而易见中。差异暴露了显而易见的事情，并使其成为偶然的而非不可避免的。因此，与差异的相遇使我们摆脱了继承的束缚，从而扩大了我们的精神机会范围。差异给了我们自由。当熟悉与陌生相关时，我们知道得更多，也更详细。本文通过比较两位杰出神学家的圣经教义来说明上述主张：弗里德里希施莱尔马赫，18-19 世纪的新教基督徒，以及 11-12 世纪的 Śrīvaiṣṇava 印度教徒 Rāmānuja。为此，本文提供了一个批判比较神学或使用比较批判力量的神学的例子。这种比较产生了对我们自己在人类可用的一系列神学选择中的地位的更深入的洞察和更广泛的理解。