<p>"The richly nuanced treatments of 'embodied truth' and other non-epistemological senses of truth provide many fresh insights, especially as the reader gets to compare them across world religions." — John Morreall, author of Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion</p>

Explores religious truth in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.This multifaceted study compares how six traditions interpret religious truth, and how it has come to be illustrated so diversely in the Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Philosophical essays integrate the comparisons, ask what religious truth might be in terms of a contemporary defensible theory, and reflect on what all this shows for the nature of religion and its study.Contributors include Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paul Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, James E. Miller, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, John Thatamanil,, and Wesley J. Wildman.
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Foreword Jonathan Z. Smith Preface: Comparing Religious Ideas Robert Cummings Neville Acknowledgments Introduction Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman 1. Truth in Chinese Religion Livia Kohn and James Miller 2. From Truth to Religious Truth in Hindu Philosophical Theology Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson 3. "With Great Noise and Mighty Whirlpools the Ganges Flowed Backwards": Buddhist Approaches to Truth Malcolm David Eckel 4. "To Practice Together Truth and Humility, Justice and Law, Love of Merciful Kindness and Modest Behavior" Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky 5. Patristic Prama and Pramana: Augustine and the Quest for Truth Paula Fredriksen 6. The Taxonomy of Truth in the Islamic Religious Doctrine and Tradition S. Nomanul Haq 7. Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman 8. A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman 9. On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville 10. Director's Conclusions Robert Cummings Neville Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Third Year Wesley J. Wildman Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading Contributors Index of Names Index of Subjects
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Explores religious truth in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780791447789
Publisert
2000-11-09
Utgiver
Vendor
State University of New York Press
Vekt
490 gr
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
365

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Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.