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Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion
In this global introduction to philosophy of religion you begin not
with a single tradition, but with religious philosophies from East
Asia, South Asia, West Africa, and Native North America, alongside
the classical Abrahamic and modern European traditions. Matching
this diversity of traditions, chapters are organized around
questions that acknowledge there is no single understanding of any
god or ultimate reality. Instead you approach six different
traditions of philosophizing about religion by asking questions
about the journeys of both the self and the cosmos such as "What is
my path?" and "Where did the cosmos come from?" Accompanied by
introductory materials and an extensive glossary, each chapter
includes learning objectives, questions for discussion, and
suggested primary and secondary sources. The categories of religion
and philosophy are interrogated throughout. Equipped with study
tools and universal questions about the self and the cosmos,
Philosophies of Religion: A Global and Critical Introduction shows
you how to philosophize about religions around the world.
Theologians and leaders from many Churches and from the major world
religions, including the last four popes, have acknowledged as
unique in Christian history the spiritual gifts poured forth
through Chiara Lubich. Her spirituality of unity has the ultimate
goal of contributing to the unity for which Jesus prayed to his
Father: May they all be one (Jn 17:21). This volume gathers her
essential writings and for the first time presents them in a
systematic fashion. It is a summa of the charism of unity, which
will lead readers to ponder, understand and experience a
spirituality particularly suited to the era in which we live. The
history of the Church has seen many radicalisms of love ... that of
Francis of Assisi, of Ignatius of Loyola. There is also Chiaras
radicalism ... which seeks to make this love victorious in every
circumstance. Pope John Paul II
Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic
Indian Buddhist traditions. Paramartha (499-569) is traditionally
credited with amalgamating these philosophies by translating one of
the most influential Tathagatagarbha texts in East Asia, the
Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, and introducing Tathagatagarbha
notions into his translations of Yogacara texts. Engaging with the
digitalized Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues from
a long-lost Dunhuang fragment and considers its striking
similarities with Paramartha's corpus with respect to terminology,
style of phrasing, and doctrines. In this cutting-edge
interpretation of the concept of jiexing, Keng demystifies the
image of Paramartha and makes the case that the fragment holds the
key to recover his original teachings.
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