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 xxiii
... whilst to see it as a whirling cloud of particles would bewilder us and make us unable to act appropriately in relation to it. And so we experience it as it appears to animals with our kind of sense organs and organising concepts. We ...
... whilst to see it as a whirling cloud of particles would bewilder us and make us unable to act appropriately in relation to it. And so we experience it as it appears to animals with our kind of sense organs and organising concepts. We ...
Side xxiv
... whilst we cannot apply to the Real in itself such terms as loving and wise, which presuppose personality, we can use a more general concept and say that in relation to us the Real is serendipitous” or benign. The term 'serendipity' was ...
... whilst we cannot apply to the Real in itself such terms as loving and wise, which presuppose personality, we can use a more general concept and say that in relation to us the Real is serendipitous” or benign. The term 'serendipity' was ...
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... whilst Islamic theology spells out the Muslim image, of the Ultimate. But both (and the many other such) images are, according to the pluralistic hypothesis, human images arising at the interface between the Real and human minds, given ...
... whilst Islamic theology spells out the Muslim image, of the Ultimate. But both (and the many other such) images are, according to the pluralistic hypothesis, human images arising at the interface between the Real and human minds, given ...
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... whilst it deepens and widens our existing moral discernment, does not depend upon questionable miracle stories for its validity and for its inherent claim upon us. But the Christmas story nevertheless remains beautiful and moving even ...
... whilst it deepens and widens our existing moral discernment, does not depend upon questionable miracle stories for its validity and for its inherent claim upon us. But the Christmas story nevertheless remains beautiful and moving even ...
Side xxxvii
... whilst many Christian mystics have freely used the language of divine-human union, in doing so they have been speaking poetically or metaphorically rather than literally. It is likewise true, I believe, that the unitive language used so ...
... whilst many Christian mystics have freely used the language of divine-human union, in doing so they have been speaking poetically or metaphorically rather than literally. It is likewise true, I believe, that the unitive language used so ...
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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