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Ineffability
The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion
Inbunden, 1993
1458 kr
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Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday …
Ineffability
The Failure of Words in Philosophy and Religion
Häftad, 1993
487 kr
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Scharfstein describes the extraordinary powers that have been attributed to language everywhere, and then looks at ineffability as it has appeared in the thought of the great philosophical cultures: India, China, Japan, and the West. He argues that there is something of our prosaic, everyday …
Theology After Vedanta
An Experiment in Comparative Theology
Häftad, 1993
371 kr
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Where Advaita Vedānta, sacred text, and comparative theology meet—truth emerges through the act of reading itself.What does it mean to read a sacred text so carefully that it changes the reader? In this ambitious and deeply learned work, Francis X. Clooney, S.J., offers an exploration of Advaita …
Buddhism and Language
A Study of Indo-Tibetan Scholasticism
Häftad, 1994
487 kr
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Taking language as its general theme, this book explores how the tradition of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist philosophical speculation exemplifies the character of scholasticism.Scholasticism, as an abstract and general category, is developed as a valuable theoretical tool for understanding a variety of …
On Being Buddha
The Classical Doctrine of Buddhahood
Häftad, 1994
463 kr
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What is it like to be a Buddha? Is there only one Buddha or are there many? What can Buddhas do and what do they know? Is there anything they cannot do and cannot know? These and associated questions were much discussed by Buddhist thinkers in India, and a complex and subtle set of doctrinal …
Religion and Practical Reason
New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Av Frank E. Reynolds, David Tracy
Inbunden, 1994
1515 kr
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This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented …
Religion and Practical Reason
New Essays in the Comparative Philosophy of Religions
Av Frank E. Reynolds, David Tracy
Häftad, 1994
504 kr
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This book contains programmatic essays that focus on broad-ranging proposals for re-envisioning a discipline of comparative philosophy of religions. It also contains a number of case studies focussing on the interpretation of particular religio-historical data from comparatively oriented …
Scholasticism
Cross-Cultural and Comparative Perspectives
Häftad, 1998
371 kr
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Leading scholars in the field of religious studies show that scholasticism as a comparative category is useful in the analysis of a variety of religious and philosophical traditions and even in the task of cultural criticism.Leading religious studies scholars join forces in this book to show that …
Discourse and Practice
Av Frank E. Reynolds, David Tracy
Häftad, 1992
422 kr
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Discourse and Practice strives to stretch the boundaries of commonly accepted notions of philosophical discourse in order to introduce comparative considerations. It is united by a concern to tease out the philosophical discourse and practices which inhere in seemingly unphilosophical "texts." …
Embracing Illusion
Truth and Fiction in The Dream of the Nine Clouds
Häftad, 1996
462 kr
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Embracing Illusion is an interdisciplinary study of a classic Korean novel. It argues that a work of narrative fiction can be taken seriously as Buddhist philosophical discourse. The capacity of fiction to speak on behalf of Buddhist truths is set in the larger context of how the literary …
Applying the Canon in Islam
The Authorization and Maintenance of Interpretive Reasoning in Ḥanafī Scholarship
Häftad, 1996
422 kr
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Argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and maintain certain types of interpretive reasoning and the social institutions that employ them.Using examples from Islamic law, Ndembu divination, and Aranda religion, this book argues how the notion of "canon" is used to authorize and …
Seeing through Texts
Doing Theology among the Śrīvaiṣṇavas of South India
Häftad, 1996
422 kr
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Examines texts and commentaries in the Tamil-language SArivastradition of South India; about the general issues of text, vision, and narrative that such texts raise, and about the implications of these for a particular style of comparative theology.Seeing through Texts invites us into the world of …
Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument
A Contemporary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Śaiva Philosophy
Inbunden, 1999
1087 kr
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Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.Rediscovering God with …
Rediscovering God with Transcendental Argument
A Contemporary Interpretation of Monistic Kashmiri Śaiva Philosophy
Häftad, 1999
422 kr
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Provides a comparative philosophical study of the thought of the two principle theorists of monistic Kashmiri Shaivism, Utpaladeva and Abhinavagupta, and also formulates a conception of the nature of philosophy as a means of intercultural and interreligious dialogue.Rediscovering God with …
