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The Garden of Reality addresses urgent questions around the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and interspiritual mysticism in order to argue that relativity and multiplicity are inevitable for the multireligious conviviality and peace of the humanity of the future.
List of contents
Prologue: What Hath Multiplicity Wrought?
1. Commemoration
2. Vignettes
3. Via Dolorosa
4. Existentiality
5. The First Word (Event and Horizon)
1. The Relativistic Code
1. Palimpsest
2. Variations, Permutations
3. Connectivity
4. Apophasis
5. Infinite Worlds
6. Indetermination
2. In A Gadda Da Vida
1. Conviviality
2. Variation and Conflict
3. The Kingdom of Names
4. Unity and Polyphilia
5. Subtractive Affirmation
3. Laozi, Oscillating
1. Resonances
2. Oscillating Contrasts
3. Meaningful Regresses
4. Mutual Incompleteness
5. The Many Ways of Truth and Unity
4. Syncretic or Sympathic?
1. Conjectures
2. Transreligious Flows
3. Multiplicity
4: Coinhabitation
5: The Indistinction of Suffering
5. Be Transreligious!
1. The Category "Transreligious"
2. Mystic Cosmology
3. The Cycle of Love
4. Infinite Worlds
5. Skillful Suspensions (Be Multiplicity!)
6. Apophatic Ecstasies
1. The Nameless Name
2. The Absolute, the All-Relational, the Surrelative
3. Impersonations
4. The Ultimate Manifold
5. Emanations, Insistence
6. Polyphilic Pluralism
7. The Buddha, Luminous
1. Plurisingularity
2. The Luminous Mind
3. Uncompounded Reality
4. Bhagavat
5. Khora (The Selfless Self)
6. The Tree of Life
8. Circumscriptions, Circulations
1. Differentiations
2. Bifurcations
3. Multiplications
4. Manifestations
5. Reconciliations
6. Circulations
9. Theopoetics and Cosmopolity
1. The New Axial Age
2. A New Cosmopolitanism (of the Event)?
3. Theopoetics and the Novelty of Truth
4. Deconstructions
5. The Garden of Relativity (Omnirelativity)
Epilogue: Clouds of Truth
1. Reality, Clouded
2. The Transylvanian Argument
3. An Experiment with Truth
4. The Last Word (Magnitudes and Domains)
About the author
Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. His recent books include The Garden of Reality (2018), The Ocean of God (2019) and Depths As Yet Unspoken (2020).
Summary
The Garden of Reality addresses urgent questions around the relativity of religious truth, religious pluralism, transreligious discourse, postmodern cosmology, and interspiritual mysticism in order to argue that relativity and multiplicity are inevitable for the multireligious conviviality and peace of the humanity of the future.
