Religious Truth
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-4778-9 (ISBN)
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.
Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World , all published by SUNY Press.
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
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 9.11.2000 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | SUNY series, The Comparative Religious Ideas Project |
| Vorwort | Jonathan Z. Smith |
| Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
| Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 490 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Christentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7914-4778-2 / 0791447782 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-4778-9 / 9780791447789 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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