An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the TranscendentSpringer, 11. okt. 2004 - 416 sider An updated new edition of the groundbreaking investigation which takes full account of the finding of the social and historical sciences whilst offering a religious interpretation of the religions as different culturally conditioned responses to a transcendent Divine Reality. Written with great clarity and force, and with a wealth of fresh insights, this major work (based on the author's Gifford Lectures of 1896-7) treats the principal topics in the philosophy of religion and establishes both a basis for religious affirmation today and a framework for the developing world-wide inter-faith dialogue. Includes a new Introduction to the second edition. |
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... Islam 4 Ethics and religious belief Myth, Mystery and the Unanswered Questions 1 Unanswered and unanswerable questions 2 Expository myths 3 The mythological character of language about the Real 4 The mythological character of religious ...
... Islam 4 Ethics and religious belief Myth, Mystery and the Unanswered Questions 1 Unanswered and unanswerable questions 2 Expository myths 3 The mythological character of language about the Real 4 The mythological character of religious ...
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... Islam is to be understood as poetic metaphor, not as literal description. One of them, Al-Ghazali, analyses the situation very clearly when he says that the mystics “after their ascent to the heavens of Reality, agree that they saw ...
... Islam is to be understood as poetic metaphor, not as literal description. One of them, Al-Ghazali, analyses the situation very clearly when he says that the mystics “after their ascent to the heavens of Reality, agree that they saw ...
Side 2
... Islam. That there is not just one but a plurality of such historical channels is prominent among the facts for which an interpretation of religion must account. In doing so it will inevitably have to go beyond the dominant self ...
... Islam. That there is not just one but a plurality of such historical channels is prominent among the facts for which an interpretation of religion must account. In doing so it will inevitably have to go beyond the dominant self ...
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... Islam, sharing some of their characteristics (such as a comprehensive world-view, with scriptures, eschatology, saints and a total moral claim) whilst lacking others (such as belief in a transcendent divine reality). Accordingly when ...
... Islam, sharing some of their characteristics (such as a comprehensive world-view, with scriptures, eschatology, saints and a total moral claim) whilst lacking others (such as belief in a transcendent divine reality). Accordingly when ...
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... Islam, one of the strictest of all monotheistic faiths, grew to early power among the herding people of the Arabian peninsula . . . (1978, 190) Again, we cannot help noticing that in conflicts between 'Godfearing nations each warring ...
... Islam, one of the strictest of all monotheistic faiths, grew to early power among the herding people of the Arabian peninsula . . . (1978, 190) Again, we cannot help noticing that in conflicts between 'Godfearing nations each warring ...
Indhold
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PART ONE PHENOMENOLOGICAL | 20 |
PART TWO THE RELIGIOUS AMBIGUITY OF THE UNIVERSE | 72 |
PART THREE EPISTEMOLOGICAL | 128 |
PART FOUR RELIGIOUS PLURALISM | 231 |
PART FIVE CRITERIOLOGICAL | 298 |
The Future | 377 |
Reference Bibliography | 381 |
Index of Names | 409 |
Index of Subjects | 414 |
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An Interpretation of Religion: Human Responses to the Transcendent J. Hick Ingen forhåndsvisning - 2004 |
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accordingly advaita Vedanta advaitic affirm Allah appropriate argument aspect awareness axial age basic belief Bhagavad Gita bodhisattva Brahman Buddha Buddhist century Chapter character Christian cognitive compassion concept concerned consciousness constitutes cosmic cultural death deity developed Dharmakaya distinction divine personae doctrine Don Cupitt dukkha environment eternal ethical evil example experienced expressed fact faith forms God's gods heavenly Hindu Hinduism human existence ideal impersonae individual infinite interpretation Islam Jahweh Jesus kind language liberation limitlessly literal live Lord Mahayana manifestations meaning mind moral Muslim mystical myth mythological naturalistic nature nevertheless Nikāya Nirvana non-realist one's particular perceived philosophical Plantinga pluralistic hypothesis possible post-axial present question Qur'an rational Real realist Reality-centredness relation religion religious experience religious traditions response salvation/liberation Samsara scriptures self-centredness sense social soteriological spiritual stories Sunyata theism theistic theodicy theology theory Theravada thought transcendent reality true ultimate reality universe Vishnu whilst worship