LEADER 03187nam 2200601 450 001 9910815632903321 005 20230803021712.0 010 $a0-300-16733-4 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300167337 035 $a(CKB)2550000001115085 035 $a(EBL)3421275 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000984399 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12448942 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000984399 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11013653 035 $a(PQKB)10146374 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3421275 035 $a(DE-B1597)485735 035 $a(OCoLC)857769466 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300167337 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3421275 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10756469 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL515387 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001115085 100 $a20130415h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe experience of God $ebeing, consciousness, bliss /$fDavid Bentley Hart 210 1$aNew Haven :$cYale University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (376 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-300-16684-2 311 $a1-299-84136-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aGod, gods, and the world -- God is not a proper name -- Pictures of the world -- Being, consciousness, bliss -- Being (Sat) -- Consciousness (Chit) -- Bliss (Ananda) -- Reality of God -- Illusion and reality. 330 $aDespite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion-God-frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical "moments"-being, consciousness, and bliss-the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity's experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine. 606 $aGod 606 $aExperience (Religion) 615 0$aGod. 615 0$aExperience (Religion) 676 $a211 700 $aHart$b David Bentley$01108877 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815632903321 996 $aThe experience of God$94085259 997 $aUNINA