The experience of God
Subtitle: being, consciousness, bliss
By: David Bentley Hart
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9780300166842
Subjects: God; Experience (Religion)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: God, gods, and the world; title: "God" is not a proper name; title: Pictures of the world; title: Being, consciousness, bliss; title: Being (Sat); title: Consciousness (Chit); title: Bliss (Ananda); title: Reality of God; title: Illusion and reality.