Beyond Compare: St. Francis de Sales and Sri Vedanta Desika on Loving Surrender to God

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Chapter 1 Index abandonment in Treatise, 176–80 Abraham’s sacrifice of Isaac, 145 acarya. See teachers, De2ika’s reverence for affect Altieri on, 134–37 in de Sales, 38, 76, 81, 98, 181 in De2ika, 46, 53, 76, 81, 98 in double reading of Essence and Treatise, 30, 32, 133, 140 the intellectual, the imaginative, and the affective, mutual intensification of, xi, 5, 13, 56, 203, 209, 217 intensification, affective, xi, 13, 84, 203, 209 loving surrender, affective implications of, 4 of repentance, 64 A[akiya Manavala Perumal Nayana], 8 Alavantar (Yamuna) poetry and prose, shifts in Essence between, 124, 126, 127, 131 quoted by De2ika, 99, 105 relationship to De2ika, 6, 9, 10, 13 stories told by De2ika about, 122 Altieri, Charles, 84, 133–39, 190– 91, 202, 236n115–16 a[vars, 7, 99, 122, 123 Ambrose of Milan, 114 amour preferred to charité in Treatise, 62, 225n91. See also love and loving surrender Angela of Foligno, 19 antati verses, 127–32 Anthony the Hermit, 88 Anthony of Padua, 114 antirationalism, concept of, 219n1. See also entries under reason approach in Dvaya Mantra, De2ika’s exegesis of, 159– 60, 239n40 Apullar, 13 Aristotle, 44, 246n35 Asta2loki, 11 Atmasiddhi, 106 Atreya Ramanuja, 215n20 Augustine of Hippo, 43, 88, 114, 246n35 256 Index authority, and the individual writer, 67–76 de-individualization of authorego , 76 de Sales in Treatise, 67–70, 76 De2ika in Essence, 70–76 Barnabas (saint), 110 Basil (saint), 115, 181, 234n75 Bellarmine, Robert, 20 beneficial way (hita), 13, 21, 27 benevolence and deep pleasure (complaisance) for de Sales, 240n70 Bernard of Clairvaux, 43 Bhagavad Gita 4.34, 74 7.23, 100 9.33, 100 11.4, 55 16.4, 244n15 16.5, 244n15 17.4, 111 De2ika’s quotation of, 7, 99, 106 Bhattar, Para2ara, 11, 13 Bible. See Scripture Bonaventure (saint), 19, 43 Borgia, Francis, 88 Bossuet, Jacques-Bénigne, 144 Bouvier de la Motte Guyon, Jeanne-Marie, 144 Brahma (Uttara Mimamsa) Sutras, 7 Camus, M., 20 Carama Sloka, 10, 190–91, 215n24, 238n13 Carr, Karen L., 218n48, 219n1, 228–29n1, 243n109 Catherine of Genoa, 19, 42 Catherine of Siena, 19, 115, 121 Catholicism, Roman. See Roman Catholicism Catuh2loki 1, 106 Cecilia (saint), 109 Chantal, Jean de, 217n43 charité in Treatise, amour preferred to, 62, 225n91. See also love and loving surrender Charles (saint and archbishop of Milan), 90, 115 Christ. See Jesus Christianity. See Roman Catholicism Clare of Montefalco, 117 Colossians 3:3, 97, 178 commentaries. See also specific texts de Sales and Song of Songs, 118 Essence as, 10 Hadot on, 79–80 in Hinduism, 123 Srivaisnava tradition of, 30 on three holy mantras, 11 on Tiruvaymo[i, 2, 53 community of believers in Essence after loving surrender, 196 comparative theology. See interreligious learning complaisance. See deep pleasure (complaisance) for de Sales conformity to God in de Sales, 171–74 contextual issues, 25 convergence of Essence and Treatise, privileging of, 26– 27, 98–99 conversion, 56–67 in Essence, 56–60 in Treatise, 60–67 use of term, 56, 224n70 2 Corinthians 3:5, 66 Index 257 Council of Trent, 17, 34, 237n4 crucifixion of Christ, Treatise on, 66–67, 120–21, 176–80, 199 Cyprian (saint and bishop of Carthage), 43 Cyprian (saint and martyr), 88 Davidson, Arnold, 80 de Sales, Francis, and Treatise on the Love of God, 14–21 biographical information, 14– 15, 17 compared to Vedanta De2ika and Essence, 21–23 complaisance. See deep pleasure (complaisance) for de Sales composition of Treatise, 15–16 contextual issues, 25 convergence with Essence, privileging of, 26–27, 98–99 on conversion, 60–67 deep pleasure. See deep pleasure (complaisance) for de Sales emotion in, 22, 169 intended readership of Treatise, 15, 69–70 Introduction to the Devout Life and, 15, 216n30 on life after loving surrender, 196–202 love and loving surrender in Treatise. See love and loving surrender on meditation, 90–92, 220– 21n31 narrative nature of, 84–85, 132 pagans learning, pagan vs. Christian, 44–46 virtues, critique of, 201–2, 246–47n35 personalization of text, 112–21 heroic persons, stories of, 19– 20, 113–19 natural phenomena, lessons derived from, 234n81 reader personally addressed as “O Theotimus,” 119–21 predestination, de Sales’s early crisis with, 143–46 reason, problem of. See under reason on repentance, 64–66 Scripture in. See under Scripture sources and influences, 216– 17n38, 217n43 style and goals of, 132–33 synthesis of...