Advaitic Modernity?

Andrew D. Thrasher is a part-time professor and instructor of religious studies at George Mason University and in the Virginia Community College System, where he regularly teaches courses on Asian and comparative religions.

• Introduction: Raimon Panikkar as Philosophical TheologianChapter 1: The Cosmotheandric Intuition: From Metaphysics to TheologyChapter 2: Panikkar’s Relational Ontology: Being, Relation, and OntonomyChapter 3: Heidegger’s Ontology, Panikkar’s Advaita: Ontology, Metaphysics, and TempiternityChapter 4: Desmond’s Metaxu, Panikkar’s Advaita: Opening to Transcendence Chapter 5: The Problems and Promises of a Postmodern Ontology: Theological Critiques of ModernityChapter 6: Postmodern Ontology at the Limits of Modernity: Three Genealogies of ModernityChapter 7: Panikkar’s Postsecular Vision: A Panikkarean Reading of Charles TaylorConclusion: An Advaitic Modernity?

This project stands as a monumental endeavor in the realm of contemporary philosophical theology … this book is an important contribution to Panikkar studies that not only deepens our appreciation and understanding of Panikkar in light of secularism and globalization but also invites further cross-cultural and intercultural dialogue about the contributions that mysticism and spirituality can make to philosophy, theology, and religious studies.