God and the Self: Three Types of Philosophy of ReligionThis book is a collection of essays on the philosophy of religion, but it draws on contemporary work in the social sciences as well as in philosophy. It examines the ways in which conceptions of God reflect notions of the self that are present in the thought and experience of each author. |
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... felt a special kinship with this philosophical tradition and borrowed particular tools and formulations from it , though some maintained that they had access to an additional resource that the philosopher either did not pos- sess or had ...
... felt a special kinship with this philosophical tradition and borrowed particular tools and formulations from it , though some maintained that they had access to an additional resource that the philosopher either did not pos- sess or had ...
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... felt to be relative and to give way to an undifferentiated unity of the whole . It is correlated with the experience of unity with the cosmos or with the ground of all being , and is grounded in the experi- ence of unbounded trust . The ...
... felt to be relative and to give way to an undifferentiated unity of the whole . It is correlated with the experience of unity with the cosmos or with the ground of all being , and is grounded in the experi- ence of unbounded trust . The ...
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... for the ontological . The ontological approach involves a unity and an immediacy that he felt could never be recov- ered if one began with the pluralistic view of the 158 GOD AND THE SELF The One and the Many The One and the Many.
... for the ontological . The ontological approach involves a unity and an immediacy that he felt could never be recov- ered if one began with the pluralistic view of the 158 GOD AND THE SELF The One and the Many The One and the Many.
Contents
This book originated in a curiosity about the various | 7 |
Introduction | 11 |
The Monistic Type | 36 |
Copyright | |
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