The Experience of God - Being, Consciousness, Bliss

Informationen zum Autor David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox scholar of religion, philosopher, writer, and cultural commentator. Klappentext Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical "moments" -being, consciousness, and bliss- the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Zusammenfassung Despite recent ferocious public debate about the likelihood of the existence of God! the most central concept in such arguments remains strangely obscure. What is God? In this written contribution to reasoned discussion! a revered religious thinker clarifies how the word "God" functions in various religious traditions.

Product details

• Authors: David Bentley Hart, Hart David Bentley
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780300209358
• ISBN: 978-0-300-20935-8
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 210 mm x 27 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religious issues & debates, Nature & existence of God, Religious issues and debates, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine