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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... nature of the supposedly ineffable reality. Christian theologians, for example, having declared that "God transcends even the mind' (Augustine)7 or that 'by its immensity the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect ...
... nature of the supposedly ineffable reality. Christian theologians, for example, having declared that "God transcends even the mind' (Augustine)7 or that 'by its immensity the divine substance surpasses every form that our intellect ...
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... nature of the Real. If the Real is truly transcategorial (or ineffable) on what grounds can we say, as the pluralistic hypothesis does, that it is authentically manifested within the domain of human experience as a loving rather than a ...
... nature of the Real. If the Real is truly transcategorial (or ineffable) on what grounds can we say, as the pluralistic hypothesis does, that it is authentically manifested within the domain of human experience as a loving rather than a ...
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... nature such that'. But No, in that this does not entail that the Real in itself is a loving God, or indeed that it has any of the other qualities that we can attribute to a deity, such as personality, goodness, knowledge, justice, etc ...
... nature such that'. But No, in that this does not entail that the Real in itself is a loving God, or indeed that it has any of the other qualities that we can attribute to a deity, such as personality, goodness, knowledge, justice, etc ...
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... nature – the imago dei, or our capacity to receive divine revelation, or the atman, or the Buddha nature — that resonates to the universal presence of the transcendent reality, in virtue of which quality we are religious animals ...
... nature – the imago dei, or our capacity to receive divine revelation, or the atman, or the Buddha nature — that resonates to the universal presence of the transcendent reality, in virtue of which quality we are religious animals ...
Side xxxii
... nature of all human cognition. Once this is accepted, naïve realism, in both sense perception and religious experience, has to be abandoned and we have to proceed on the basis of the critical realism which holds that there is a reality ...
... nature of all human cognition. Once this is accepted, naïve realism, in both sense perception and religious experience, has to be abandoned and we have to proceed on the basis of the critical realism which holds that there is a reality ...
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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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