Theology: Comparative Theology
Historically, the term comparative theology has been used in a variety of ways. First, it sometimes refers to a subsection of the discipline called "comparative religion" wherein the historian of religions analyzes the "theologies" of different religions. Second, within the discipline variously named "the science of religion," Religionswissenschaft, or "history of religions," some scholars have used the term comparative theology to indicate one aspect of the discipline. F. Max Müller, for example, in his Introduction to the Science of Religion, used the term to refer to that part of the "science of religion" that analyzes "historical" forms of.....
