Table of Contents

Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: 1. The background to the divine body in Teilhard de Chardin; 2. The background to the divine body in Rāmānuja; 3. The body of Christ in the writings of Teilhard de Chardin; 4. The body of Brahman in the writings of Rāmānuja; Part II: 5. Functions of the divine body in Rāmānuja and Teilhard de Chardin; 6. The divine body as model of the integration of consciousness; 7. The divine body as model for the transformation of consciousness; 8. The divine body: paradigm of a conscious cosmos; Appendices; Glossary of Indian terms; Notes; Select bibliography; Index.

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"This is a comprehensive and scholarly study of the comparisons to be drawn between two religious traditions on the subject of the world as the body of the divine as exemplified in the writings of two significant thinkers...It is a most competent exposition of the positions of the writers concerned..." Glyn Richards, Asian Thought and Society