ABSTRACT
This chapter will explore the idea that the Vedanta tradition of Sri Ramakrishna is already, in a sense, an example of a Theology Without Walls. It will test this proposition through a study of the concept of the avatar: a central teaching of the Ramakrishna tradition that both distinguishes this tradition as one concrete tradition among others and forms a basis for an appreciative approach to other traditions through the idea that their founding figures might also be avatars, or divine incarnations, much as Ramakrishna himself is believed to be.
