ABSTRACT
In this chapter I attempt to delineate the complex relationship between the Theology Without Walls and comparative theology via an examination of the notion of multiple religious belonging. I carry out this delineation in an autobiographical mode by tracing the development of my Christian–Confucian–Daoist theological metaphysics. By highlighting the bidirectionality inherent in my comparative-theological journey of passing over into another tradition and returning, I contend that it is possible to conceive multiple religious belonging as having a symmetrical, not asymmetrical, operational logic. This claim leads me to conclude that comparative theology may be envisaged as a mode of the Theology Without Walls insofar as the latter allows room for a theological thinking confessionally tethered to, but not arbitrarily restricted by, a certain number of concrete teachings and practices as a result of one’s existential and historical embeddedness in particular traditions.
