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From the inception of the ongoing ''Toward a Comparative Philosophy of Religions Project" at the University of Chicago Divinity School (for a basic description see my "Introduction" in Volume IMyth and Philosophy), the organizers and the participants have quite explicitly recognized that the term "philosophy" is being used in a rather broad sense.
1 Thus everyone who has been involved has accepted the presumption that the term philosophy includes both "philosophic" enterprises that stand outside the faith commitments associated with particular religious traditions, and closely corresponding "theological" enterprises in which such religious commitments play an explicit role. |
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In the previous volumes that have been published in the Series (Myth and Philosophy, Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage,and Discourse and Practice) the term philosophy has been used in this rather broad sense, and little explicit reference to theology has been made.2 The only major exception is Francis X. Clooney's essay, "Vedanta, Commentary, and the Theological Component of Cross-Cultural Study," which provided a preliminary formulation of many of the ideas that are more fully developed in the present volume (see Myth and Philosophy,pp. 287-316). At the time, Clooney's quite self-conscious insistence on using the term "theology" rather than the |
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