With Comparative Theology Clooney invited thinkers into God-seeking investigation that extends “across religious boundaries,” requires “attentive emptying,” seeks “true encounter,” and forces us to return “home again” even as we revaluate our “home citizenship.” But where is this location of “first belonging” for the Christian comparative theologian? This chapter will explore and commend the prison, both in historical and contemporary manifestations, as a site of divine favor and a location for fruitful comparative theological work. Indeed prison may even be the theologian’s true home, for God crucified “agrees to meet us there too” as the one “not confined” that we might learn “only the Truth that sets us free.”.
