| Description |
xv, 230 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 2 |
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Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 2
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Reflections on method in comparative studies Western philosophy as a great religion / Huston Smith -- The transcending process and the relocation of the sacred / Peter Slater -- The civilizational perspective in comparative studies of transcendence / Edith Wyschograd -- pt. 2. Brahmanism, Buddhism, and the gnostic way Transcendent Brahman or transcendent void: Which is ultimately real? / J.G. Arapura -- Transcendence and the sacred in the Mahāyāna middle way / Robert A.F. Thurman -- The problem of transcendence in comparative religion: the quest for the sacred in Kamakura (Japanese) Buddhism / Robert Lee -- Deceiving the deity: self-transcendence and the numinous in Gnosticism / Pheme Perkins -- pt. 3. Modes of transcending: will, mind, and praxis Transcendence and the will to believe / Leroy S. Rouner -- Confessions of theory and life / J.N. Findlay -- The religious dimension in Heidegger / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Transcendence as interruption: theology in a political mode / Frederick G. Lawrence |
| Analysis |
Comparative religion |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Philosophy and religion.
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Religion -- Philosophy.
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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| Author |
Olson, Alan M.
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Rouner, Leroy S.
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| LC no. |
81050456 |
| ISBN |
0268018413 |
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