Book contents
- Exploring Religious Pluralism
- Exploring Religious Pluralism
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Apophaticism and Perennialism
- 3 The Philosophy of Religion and Its Limitations
- 4 Philosophy and Noetic Perception
- 5 Philosophy and the Pluralistic Hypothesis
- 6 Beyond Philosophical Argument
- 7 Archetypes and ‘Platonic’ Mysticism
- 8 Noetic Perception and the Role of the Imagination
- 9 The Evolution of Religiosity
- 10 Revelation and Divine Action
- 11 A Pluralistic Model in the Making
- 12 Pluralism or ‘Reciprocal Inclusivism’?
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2024
- Exploring Religious Pluralism
- Exploring Religious Pluralism
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Apophaticism and Perennialism
- 3 The Philosophy of Religion and Its Limitations
- 4 Philosophy and Noetic Perception
- 5 Philosophy and the Pluralistic Hypothesis
- 6 Beyond Philosophical Argument
- 7 Archetypes and ‘Platonic’ Mysticism
- 8 Noetic Perception and the Role of the Imagination
- 9 The Evolution of Religiosity
- 10 Revelation and Divine Action
- 11 A Pluralistic Model in the Making
- 12 Pluralism or ‘Reciprocal Inclusivism’?
- Afterword
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In an introductory way, and in the context of ‘embracing subjectivity,’ the claims of being ‘spiritual but not religious’ (and of its ‘pop-culture pantheism’ version) are examined in relation to their associated rejection of ‘doctrinal religion’. Both the Origenist sense of ‘seeming history’ in scripture and Vladimir Lossky’s sense of the meaning of ‘mystical theology’ are seen as relevant to exploring the importance of this rejection of doctrinal religion, especially in relation to Lossky’s focus on the way in which theology should not be seen as abstract and discursive but as essentially contemplative in nature. The relevance of divine action understandings to the concept of religious pluralism is outlined, and five theses are set out that link a naturalistic perspective on this action with the revelatory experience that is the basis of any religious tradition.
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- Exploring Religious PluralismFrom Mystical Theology to the Science-Theology Dialogue, pp. 1 - 15Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024