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Author Kellenberger, James, author.

Title Religious revelation / James Kellenberger
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (x, 88 pages)
Series Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion
Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion.
Contents Chap. 1 Introduction -- Chap 2 Revelation in Judaism -- Chap 3 Revelation in Christianity -- Chap 4 Revelation in Islam -- Chap 5 Revelation in Other Traditions -- Chap 6 Elaborations of Revelation -- Chap 7 Oracles, Dreams, and Other Revelatory Experiences -- Chap 8 Theologians on Revelation -- Chap 9 Views of Revelation -- Chap 10 Faith and Revelation -- Chap 11 Pervasive Revelation -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation. These include its occurrence in various religious traditions, its different forms, its elaborations, how it has been understood by Western theologians, and differing views of revelation's ontological status. It has been remarked that revelation is most at home in theistic traditions, and this book gives each of the three Abrahamic traditions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - its own chapter. Revelation, however, is not limited to theistic traditions; forms found in Buddhism and nondevotional (nontheistic) Hinduism are also explored. In the book's final chapter a particularly significant form of religious revelation is identified and examined: pervasive revelation. The theistic manifestation of this form of revelation, pervasive in the sense that it may occurs in all the domains or dimensions of human existence, is shown to be richly represented in the Psalms, where God's presence may be found in the heavens, in the growing of grass, and in one's daily going out and coming in. Pervasive revelation of religious reality is also shown to be present in the Buddhist tradition. James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. His previous books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Dying to Self and Detachment, and, most recently, Religion; Pacifism, and Nonviolence and The Presence of God and the Presence of Persons
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Revelation -- Christianity.
Revelation -- Judaism.
Revelation -- Islam.
Revelation -- Buddhism.
Revelation -- Hinduism.
Religion -- Philosophy.
Religion -- Philosophy
Revelation -- Buddhism
Revelation -- Christianity
Revelation -- Hinduism
Revelation -- Islam
Revelation -- Judaism
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030538729
3030538729