Francis X. Clooney, Learning Interreligiously

In 2017, the Catholic Theological Society of America honored Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with the prestigious John Courtney Murray Award for a lifetime of theological achievement. As he accepted the award, Clooney said, “I had to find a way to be a Catholic theologian and take seriously this vast other world of Hinduism . . . I’ve had to invent the field to do the work I wanted to do.”

Hailed as a founder of modern comparative theology, “a discipline distinguished by attentiveness to the dynamics of theological learning deepened through the study of traditions other than one’s own,” Clooney is the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School. Before joining the Harvard faculty, he taught for more than 20 years at Boston College.

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