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The Experience of God - Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Paperback): David Bentley Hart

The Experience of God - Being, Consciousness, Bliss (Paperback)

David Bentley Hart

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From one of the most revered scholars of religion, an incisive explanation of how the word "God" functions in the world's great faiths 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. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity's experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2014
First published: September 2014
Authors: David Bentley Hart
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-20935-8
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Comparative religion
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > Nature & existence of God
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Comparative religion
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > Nature & existence of God
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LSN: 0-300-20935-5
Barcode: 9780300209358

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