Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Truth in Chinese religion / Livia Kohn and James Miller -- From truth to religious truth in Hindu philosophical theology / Francis X. Clooney with Hugh Nicholson -- "With great noise and mighty whirlpools the Ganges flowed backwards": Buddhist approaches to truth / Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil -- "To practice together truth and humility, justice and law, love of merciful kindness and modest behavior" / Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph Kanofsky -- Patristic pramåa and pramåaòna: Augustine and the quest for truth / Paula Fredriksen -- The taxonomy of truth in the Islamic religious doctrine and tradition / S. Nomanul Haq -- Religious truth in the six traditions: a summary / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- A contemporary understanding of religious truth / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- On the nature of religion: lessons we have learned / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville -- 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.