Religious epistemology through Schillebeeckx and Tibetan Buddhism : reimagining authority amidst modern uncertainty /
"This study investigates how a comparison between the Catholic theologian Edward Schillebeeckx's controversial reading of Thomist philosophy and the Tibetan Buddhist Gendun Chopel's challenge to the standard Geluk teaching of Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy might assist in ret...
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| Formato: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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London ; New York :
T & T Clark,
[2021]
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| coleção: | T & T Clark studies in Edward Schillebeeckx.
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| Acesso em linha: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2732805 |
Sumário:
- Introduction. The problem of objective "truth" and the threat of relativism for religious practitioners in the modern world
- Comparative theology, religious diversity, and the question of ultimate truth
- The "bridge concept" and its materials
- The histories of individuals, and the context for their ideas
- The roles of individual intellect and the collective intelligence of the community in knowledge formation
- The role of the historical founders of religious traditions in shaping and conveying
- Religious knowledge, meaning, and truth for contemporary believers
- The role and authority of personal experience in the apophatic knowledge of ultimate reality
- Conclusion. Possible Madhyamaka implications for Catholic theology.