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Garth Hallett - One God Of All?, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

One God Of All?

Probing Pluralist Identities

Av Garth Hallett

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The claim has repeatedly been made, and has often been contested, that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions. In this view, names such as "God," "Allah," "nirvana," "Vishnu," and "Brahman" all refer to the same transcendent reality. Absent from the debate and here provided is a serious study of such claims in the light of the most pertinent philosophical literature, namely that concerning questions of identity and individuation. Of necessity, the terms that the claims employ are very general and abstract: the world's religions, it is said, all refer to the same "thing," "being," or "reality." Although analogy, rightly understood, can back the transcendent extension of descriptive expressions such as "wise," "good," and "powerful," it cannot do likewise for expressions such as "one," "same," and "many." So pluralists' identity claims appear empty. Hallett scrutinizes the soundness of this critique, its broad implications, and the possibility of replacing empty identity claims with suitable parables or comparisons.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2012-05-24
  • Mått: 156 x 234 x 8 mm
  • Vikt: 248 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 160
  • Förlag: Continuum Publishing Corporation
  • ISBN: 9781441170484
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Garth Hallett, SJ, was formerly Dean of the College of Philosophy and Letters at Saint Louis University, USA. He has previously published fourteen books, including A Middle Way to God (Oxford University Press, 2000), Identity and Mystery in Themes of Christian Faith (Ashgate, 2005), and Linguistic Philosophy: The Central Story (SUNY, 2008).

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One God of All? is a remarkable achievement that brings needed clarity, religiously sensitive and philosophically incisive, to the debates surrounding today's religious diversity. With Wittgenstein as his ally and John Hick his major debating partner, Hallett offers specific and penetrating insights into how we experience diversity and put it into words, and shows how we can sensibly think it through, without surrendering to fideism or relativism. This book should be a necessary reference for all those wishing to philosophize the meaning of today's pluralism.

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