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Title: What Counts as 'Catholic'? What Constitutes 'Comparative'?
Subtitle: Embodied Practice as a Site for Comparative Catholic Theology
Author(s): HILL FLETCHER, Jeannine
Journal: Studies in Interreligious Dialogue
Volume: 24    Issue: 1   Date: 2014   
Pages: 78-85
DOI: 10.2143/SID.24.1.3040781

Abstract :
Hill Fletcher argues that, from a feminist theological perspective, the question of whether there can be a Catholic comparative theology invites us to press beyond the doctrinal and magisterial pronouncements and consider the impact of comparative practices on living bodies. In both sacramental and social justice traditions, the import of our theological thinking is measured in fullness of life as a concrete and material reality. Drawn from research on Catholic women in interfaith settings, this article indicates some of the currents of comparative theology emergent 'on the ground' attentive to the livingness of bodies. Whether these are evidence of a truly Catholic comparative theology depends not only upon how one understands 'comparative theology' but what counts as 'Catholic'. Daria Schnipkoweit argues, in contrast, that the examples Hill Fletcher uses do not reveal the attitudes she sees as characteristic of comparative theology: lack of humility and hospitality to truth.

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