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One God of All?

Probing Pluralist Identities

by Usa) Garth Hallett (saint Louis University

  • Hardback
  • 152 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

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This title investigates and subjects to philosophical analysis, the claim that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions. The claim has repeatedly been made, and has often been contested, that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions. In this view, 'God', 'Allah', 'nirvana', 'Vishnu', 'Brahman', all refer to the same transcendent reality. Absent from the debate and here provided is a serious study of such claims in the light of the most pertinent philosophical literature, namely that concerning questions of identity and individuation. Of necessity, the terms that the claims employ are very general and abstract: the world's religions, it is said, all refer to the same 'thing', 'being', or 'reality'. Although analogy, rightly understood, can back the transcendent extension of descriptive expressions such as 'wise', 'good', and 'powerful', it cannot do likewise for expressions such as 'one', 'same', and 'many'. So pluralists' identity claims appear empty.Hallett scrutinizes the soundness of this critique, its broad implications, and the possibility of replacing empty identity claims with suitable parables or comparisons.
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  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    October 2010

  • Weight

    391g

  • Page Count

    152

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826446329

  • ISBN-10

    0826446329

  • Eden Code

    3206601

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