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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Side vii
... possible objections 51 4 The Cosmic Optimism of Post-Axial Religion 1 Cosmic optimism 56 2 The temporal character of experience 57 3 The eschatological character of the Semitic traditions 61 4 The eschatological character of the Indian ...
... possible objections 51 4 The Cosmic Optimism of Post-Axial Religion 1 Cosmic optimism 56 2 The temporal character of experience 57 3 The eschatological character of the Semitic traditions 61 4 The eschatological character of the Indian ...
Side xiii
... possible approach to them. Those who find this approach inadequate or misleading will I hope feel under obligation to propose another, so that the various options can be progressively clarified and their merits considered. The ...
... possible approach to them. Those who find this approach inadequate or misleading will I hope feel under obligation to propose another, so that the various options can be progressively clarified and their merits considered. The ...
Side xix
... possible by our conceptual-linguistic systems and spiritual practices. The basic epistemological principle invoked here was well stated by Thomas Aquinas in his dictum that "The thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the ...
... possible by our conceptual-linguistic systems and spiritual practices. The basic epistemological principle invoked here was well stated by Thomas Aquinas in his dictum that "The thing known is in the knower according to the mode of the ...
Side xxi
... possible to make sense of what he says. I take it the term 'tricycle' does not apply to the Real; the Real is not a tricycle. But if the Real is not a tricycle, then, 'is not a tricycle' applies literally to it; it is a nontricycle. It ...
... possible to make sense of what he says. I take it the term 'tricycle' does not apply to the Real; the Real is not a tricycle. But if the Real is not a tricycle, then, 'is not a tricycle' applies literally to it; it is a nontricycle. It ...
Side xxii
... possible by our limited human cognitive capacities. The epistemology in play here is the 'critical realism' which holds, in the case of sense perception, that there is a real external world that exists independently of all observers ...
... possible by our limited human cognitive capacities. The epistemology in play here is the 'critical realism' which holds, in the case of sense perception, that there is a real external world that exists independently of all observers ...
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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