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Author : James Henry Tuckwell
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ISBN 13 : 9780243670161
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Religion and Reality written by James Henry Tuckwell and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Henry Tuckwell
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Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Religion and Reality, a Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism written by James Henry Tuckwell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Henry Tuckwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Religion and Reality written by James Henry Tuckwell and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Henry Tuckwell
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ISBN 13 : 9781330534915
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Religion and Reality written by James Henry Tuckwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Religion and Reality: A Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism The following pages are the result of many years of careful, persistent, and, so far as possible, unbiassed and unfettered thinking on the subject of religion, in the course of which the writer found his mind, steadily, by a sort of compulsion or immanent dialectical necessity, advance, from the strict orthodoxy of one of the evangelical Christian churches into which he was born, to that universal and inclusive view of religion presented by what may appropriately be termed philosophical mysticism. And by philosophical mysticism is here meant that whole attitude of mind towards religion which results from a discovery of its rational basis and justification where it reaches its highest development in the experience of the genuine mystic. Consequently, he is not without hope that what he has here written may find some measure of sympathetic response in the minds and hearts of other thinkers who also may be engaged in the like earnest and strenuous pursuit of fundamental religious truth. For may it not, without presumption, be taken for granted, that what has met the deepest felt needs and the highest religious hopes of one sincere inquirer after ultimate truth in religion, may prove of interest, if not even of value and assistance, to others whose religious needs and aspirations are similar to his own? It may, however, be well to remind the reader that within the limits of so comparatively brief a treatise as the present, there are necessarily many interesting questions and important themes that could only be glanced at in passing, though in themselves worthy of much fuller development. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438461208
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Philosophy of Mysticism written by Richard H. Jones and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. This work is a comprehensive study of the philosophical issues raised by mysticism. Mystics claim to experience reality in a way not available in normal life, a claim which makes this phenomenon interesting from a philosophical perspective. Richard H. Jones’s inquiry focuses on the skeleton of beliefs and values of mysticism: knowledge claims made about the nature of reality and of human beings; value claims about what is significant and what is ethical; and mystical goals and ways of life. Jones engages language, epistemology, metaphysics, science, and the philosophy of mind. Methodological issues in the study of mysticism are also addressed. Examples of mystical experience are drawn chiefly from Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta, but also from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Daoism. Richard H. Jones is the author of several books, including Mysticism Examined: Philosophical Inquiries into Mysticism, also published by SUNY Press.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438486340
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to the Study of Mysticism written by Richard H. Jones and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The purpose of this book is to fill a gap in contemporary mystical studies: an overview of the basic ways to approach mystical experiences and mysticism. It discusses the problem of definitions of “mystical experiences” and “mysticism” and advances characterizations of “mystical experiences” in terms of certain altered states of consciousness and “mysticism” in terms of encompassing ways of life centered on such experiences and states. Types of mystical experiences, enlightened states, paths, and doctrines are discussed, as is the relation of mystical experiences and mysticism to religions and cultures. The approaches of constructivism, contextualism, essentialism, and perennialism are presented. Themes in the history of the world’s major mystical traditions are set forth. Approaches to mystical phenomena in sociology, psychology, gender studies, and neuroscience are introduced. Basic philosophical issues related to whether mystical experiences are veridical and mystical claims valid, mystics’ problems of language, art, and morality are laid out. Older and newer comparative approaches in religious studies and in Christian theology are discussed, along with postmodernist objections. The intended audience is undergraduates and the general public interested in the general issues related to mysticism.
Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110823985
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Mystical Experience and Religious Doctrine written by Philip C. Almond and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-02-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.
Author : Steven T. Katz
Publisher : London : Sheldon Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mysticism and Philosophical Analysis written by Steven T. Katz and published by London : Sheldon Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Marshall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538124785
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Shape of the Soul written by Paul Marshall and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An essential read for any true seeker."—Eben Alexander, MD, Neurosurgeon, author of Proof of Heaven and Living in a Mindful Universe When Paul Marshall began to pay attention to his dreams, he could not have anticipated the transformative experience that would follow. A tremendous expansion of consciousness exposed the insignificance of his everyday self but also revealed unsuspected depths of mind and hinted at a deeper self that holds the universe within. In The Shape of the Soul, Marshall—now a mysticism scholar—draws on personal experiences, along with a wealth of religious, philosophical, and scientific ideas, to explore this deeper self, sometimes experienced in mystical and near-death states as spherical in form. Drawing inspiration from the philosophers Plotinus and Leibniz, Marshall takes mind to be more fundamental than matter and views the basic units of nature as perceptual beings. We ourselves are such beings, striving for fulfilment in a long evolutionary journey of soul-making. Bringing together mysticism, philosophy, biology, and even some physics, The Shape of the Soul offers a deeply integrated vision of the self and the universe. Addressing the mind–body problem, the origin of the world, evolution, reincarnation, suffering, and the nature of God, Marshall delivers what will surely prove an intellectual classic.
Author : James Henry Tuckwell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Religion and Reality, a Study in the Philosophy of Mysticism written by James Henry Tuckwell and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony J. Steinbock
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253221811
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book Phenomenology and Mysticism written by Anthony J. Steinbock and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-12-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the first-person narratives of three figures from the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic mystical traditions—St. Teresa of Avila, Rabbi Dov Baer, and Rūzbihān Baqlī—Anthony J. Steinbock provides a complete phenomenology of mysticism based in the Abrahamic religious traditions. He relates a broad range of religious experiences, or verticality, to philosophical problems of evidence, selfhood, and otherness. From this philosophical description of vertical experience, Steinbock develops a social and cultural critique in terms of idolatry—as pride, secularism, and fundamentalism—and suggests that contemporary understandings of human experience must come from a fuller, more open view of religious experience.
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Science and Mysticism written by Richard H. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reconciliation of mystical and scientific claims is proposed in this study -- a position that attributes reality both to being and to the structures in the realm of change, with mysticism being authoritative for the former and science for the latter.
Author : William James
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1877527467
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)
Download or read book The Varieties of Religious Experience written by William James and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."
Author : S. Payne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9400920075
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book John of the Cross and the Cognitive Value of Mysticism written by S. Payne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among Anglo-American philosophers, interest in mysticism has typically been limited to the question of whether or not mystical and religious experi ences provide evidence for, or knowledge of, the existence and nature of God. Most authors conclude that they do not, because such experiences lack certain qualities needed in order to be counted as cognitive. In this study I examine some current philosophical opinions about mysticism and objec tions to its epistemic significance in the context of a detailed study of the writings of a single mystical author, the Spanish Carmelite Saint John of the Cross (1542-1591). I argue that from his works one can draw a coherent theory of what takes place in the Christian mystical life, and will indicate how acceptance of this theory might be defended as rational through a type of inference often referred to as the "Argument to the Best Explanation. " In this way I hope to show that mysticism still has a significant bearing on the justification of religious faith even if it cannot be used to "prove" the exis tence of God. The nature and advantages of my own somewhat unusual approach to mysticism can perhaps best be explained by contrasting it with the way other authors have dealt with the subject. One of the most striking develop ments in recent decades has been the growing fascination with mysticism, meditation, and the experiential aspects of religion.
Author : Robert K. C. Forman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355113
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Pure Consciousness written by Robert K. C. Forman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are mystical experiences formed by the mystic's cultural background and concepts, as ""constructivists"" maintain, or do mystics sometimes transcend language, belief, and culturally conditioned expectations? Do mystical experiences differ throughout the various religious traditions, as""pluralists"" contend, or are they somehow ecumenical? The contributors to this collection scrutinize a common mystical experience, the ""pure consciousness event""--The experience of being awake but devoid of intentional content--in order to answer these questions. Through the use of historical Hindu, Buddhist,
Author : Richard H. Jones
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438408021
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Mysticism Examined written by Richard H. Jones and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism presents a challenge to anyone who is interested in fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and how we should live. In this book the author examines questions posed by mysticism. He clarifies the nature of the claims advanced by Western and Asian mystics, and explores the beliefs and values of classical mystical ways of life for their interconnections and reasonableness. Jones discusses whether all mystical experiences and all mystical claims of knowledge are similar, and examines the relation of concepts and experiences in mystics' claims. Also presented are standards for evaluating competing mystical claims, and mystics' problems with language. Whether mystics' arguments are rational is investigated along with the relation of moral and non-moral values and the role of beliefs and values in enlightened mystics' ways of life. Mysticism's relation to the enterprises of science, theology, psychology and ethics is also examined.
Author : William Ernest Hocking
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of God in Human Experience written by William Ernest Hocking and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses what God has meant to mankind; what effect religion has had on human affairs; and what results religion as had in man's personal life. -- Dust jacket.
