Watching Clouds

Watching Clouds is about how to have productive
interreligious
theological dialogue between different traditions
when the religious
differences are so large that finding common ground
seems
unlikely. The book offers a way to think about
interreligious
dialogue that allows us to stay committed to our own
truth as we
have come to know it while being open to learning
from other
religions. It then outlines a way for Christian
theologians to enter
into a profitable dialogue with the beliefs and
traditions of other
religions.
The book examines a long-standing religious debate
within
Buddhism surrounding the Buddha-Nature, comparing the
rang-
stong view of Tsongkhapa and the gzhan-stong view of
Dolpopa,
two medieval Tibetan Buddhist scholars, as well as
the modern
work Francis X. Clooney, S.J., who pursues
Hindu-Christian
dialogue in the mode of comparative theology. It then
uses the
philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein to construct a
framework with
which to understand these religious debates and
comparative
approaches and ends with offering practical
guidelines on making
these dialogues productive.