Review of Song Divine: Christian Commentaries on the Bhagavad Gita, Catherine Cornille, editor. Peeters/W.B. Eerdmans, 2006. 219 pp: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

At its best, theology of religions inspires a vision of a future in which religious people orient themselves together toward what each takes as most significant by critically relating to the countless revelations and teachings that human beings have created over
the last fifty or so millennia. There is room in this outlook for the kind of exclusivism of a person who is primarily rooted in one particular religious culture but not for an exclusivism that upholds one religion as final or as completing others. Such claims can be asserted but not demonstrated, given the limitations of cognition. At its worst, theology of religions ratifies the inveterate capacity of religious movements to invest their own local symbols with universal finality.