Prologue; A Note on Editions and Translations of the Song of Songs, Holy Word of Mouth, and Commentaries; Act One: Missing Him; Entr'acte One: Love In-between; Act Two: Spiritual Exercises in Times of Absence; Entr'acte Two: Writing Theology after the Hiding of the Beloved; Act Three: In the End; Epilogue: Jesus, the Beloved; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
His Hiding Place is Darkness explores the uncertainties of faith and love in a pluralistic age. In keeping with his conviction that studying multiple religious traditions intensifies rather than attenuates religious devotion, Francis Clooney's latest work of comparative theology seeks a way beyond today's religious and interreligious uncertainty by pairing a fresh reading of the absence of the beloved in the Biblical Song of Songs with a pioneering study of the same theme in the Holy Word of Mouth (9th century CE), a classic of Hindu mystical poetry rarely studied in the West. Remarkably, the p
