@article{1476926,
      recid = {1476926},
      author = {Soars, Daniel, },
      title = {The World and God Are Not-Two : A Hindu-Christian  Conversation /},
      pages = {1 online resource (256 p.)},
      abstract = {The World and God Are Not-Two is a book about how the God  in whom Christians believe ought to be understood. The key  conceptual argument that runs throughout is that the  distinctive relation between the world and God in Christian  theology is best understood as a non-dualistic one. The  "two"-"God" and "World" cannot be added up as separate,  enumerable realities or contrasted with each other against  some common background because God does not belong in any  category and creatures are ontologically constituted by  their relation to the Creator.In exploring the unique  character of this distinctive relation, Soars turns to Sara  Grant's work on the Hindu tradition of Advaita Vedānta and  the metaphysics of creation found in Thomas Aquinas. He  develops Grant's work and that of the earlier Calcutta  School by drawing explicit attention to the Neoplatonic  themes in Aquinas that provide some of the most fruitful  areas for comparative engagement with Vedānta. To the  Christian, the fact that the world exists only as dependent  on God means that "world" and "God" must be ontologically  distinct because God's existence does not depend on the  world. To the Advaitin, this simultaneously means that  "World" and "God" cannot be ontologically separate either.  The language of non-duality allows us to see that both  positions can be held coherently together without entailing  any contradiction or disagreement at the level of  fundamental ontology. What it means to be "world" does not  and cannot exclude what it means to be "God."},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1476926},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781531502072},
}