Religious Truth
A Volume in the Comparative Religious Ideas Project
Published on 9. November 2000
Book
Hardback
365 pages
978-0-7914-4777-2 (ISBN)
Description
Explores religious truth in a range of world religions and discusses the issue and philosophical implications of comparison itself.
This multifaceted study compares how six traditions interpret religious truth, and how it has come to be illustrated so diversely in the Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Philosophical essays integrate the comparisons, ask what religious truth might be in terms of a contemporary defensible theory, and reflect on what all this shows for the nature of religion and its study.
Contributors include Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paul Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, James E. Miller, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, John Thatamanil,, and Wesley J. Wildman.
This multifaceted study compares how six traditions interpret religious truth, and how it has come to be illustrated so diversely in the Chinese religion, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Philosophical essays integrate the comparisons, ask what religious truth might be in terms of a contemporary defensible theory, and reflect on what all this shows for the nature of religion and its study.
Contributors include Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Malcolm David Eckel, Paul Fredriksen, S. Nomanul Haq, Joseph Kanofsky, Livia Kohn, James E. Miller, Robert Cummings Neville, Hugh Nicholson, Anthony J. Saldarini, John Thatamanil,, and Wesley J. Wildman.
Reviews / Votes
"The richly nuanced treatments of 'embodied truth' and other non-epistemological senses of truth provide many fresh insights, especially as the reader gets to compare them across world religions." - John Morreall, author of Comedy, Tragedy, and ReligionMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-4777-2 (9780791447772)
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Persons
Robert Cummings Neville is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University. His many books include Metaphysics of Goodness: Harmony and Form, Beauty and Art, Obligation and Personhood, Flourishing and Civilization, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Foreword
Jonathan Z. Smith
Preface: Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
1. Truth in Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn and James Miller
2. From Truth to Religious Truth in Hindu Philosophical Theology
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson
3. "With Great Noise and Mighty Whirlpools the Ganges Flowed Backwards": Buddhist Approaches to Truth
Malcolm David Eckel
4. "To Practice Together Truth and Humility, Justice and Law, Love of Merciful Kindness and Modest Behavior"
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky
5. Patristic Prama and Pramana: Augustine and the Quest for Truth
Paula Fredriksen
6. The Taxonomy of Truth in the Islamic Religious Doctrine and Tradition
S. Nomanul Haq
7. Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
8. A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
9. On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned
Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville
10. Director's Conclusions
Robert Cummings Neville
Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Third Year
Wesley J. Wildman
Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Jonathan Z. Smith
Preface: Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
1. Truth in Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn and James Miller
2. From Truth to Religious Truth in Hindu Philosophical Theology
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson
3. "With Great Noise and Mighty Whirlpools the Ganges Flowed Backwards": Buddhist Approaches to Truth
Malcolm David Eckel
4. "To Practice Together Truth and Humility, Justice and Law, Love of Merciful Kindness and Modest Behavior"
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky
5. Patristic Prama and Pramana: Augustine and the Quest for Truth
Paula Fredriksen
6. The Taxonomy of Truth in the Islamic Religious Doctrine and Tradition
S. Nomanul Haq
7. Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
8. A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman
9. On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned
Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville
10. Director's Conclusions
Robert Cummings Neville
Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Third Year
Wesley J. Wildman
Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading
Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Subjects