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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484795103321

Autore

Kellenberger James

Titolo

Religious revelation / / James Kellenberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-53872-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 88 p.)

Collana

Palgrave frontiers in philosophy of religion

Disciplina

231.74

Soggetti

Revelation - Christianity

Revelation - Hinduism

Revelation - Buddhism

Revelation - Islam

Revelation - Judaism

Religion - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chap. 1 Introduction -- Chap 2 Revelation in Judaism -- Chap 3 Revelation in Christianity -- Chap 4 Revelation in Islam -- Chap 5 Revelation in Other Traditions -- Chap 6 Elaborations of Revelation -- Chap 7 Oracles, Dreams, and Other Revelatory Experiences -- Chap 8 Theologians on Revelation -- Chap 9 Views of Revelation -- Chap 10 Faith and Revelation -- Chap 11 Pervasive Revelation -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses several dimensions of religious revelation. These include its occurrence in various religious traditions, its different forms, its elaborations, how it has been understood by Western theologians, and differing views of revelation’s ontological status. It has been remarked that revelation is most at home in theistic traditions, and this book gives each of the three Abrahamic traditions – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – its own chapter. Revelation, however, is not limited to theistic traditions; forms found in Buddhism and nondevotional (nontheistic) Hinduism are also explored. In the book’s final chapter a particularly significant form of religious revelation is identified and examined: pervasive revelation. The theistic



manifestation of this form of revelation, pervasive in the sense that it may occurs in all the domains or dimensions of human existence, is shown to be richly represented in the Psalms, where God’s presence may be found in the heavens, in the growing of grass, and in one’s daily going out and coming in. Pervasive revelation of religious reality is also shown to be present in the Buddhist tradition. James Kellenberger is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Northridge, USA. His previous books include Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, Dying to Self and Detachment, and, most recently, Religion; Pacifism, and Nonviolence and The Presence of God and the Presence of Persons.