01817nam a22002297a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023010001500064020003900079020003600118040000800154050002100162100002500183245008200208260006600290300002500356504006600381505021300447520089200660650000901552650002601561AUA.120150915163507.0150915t        xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a2013007118  a9780300166842 (cloth : alk. paper)  a0300166842 (cloth : alk. paper)  cJTL  aBL473b.H37 2013  aHart, David Bentley.  aThe experience of God : bbeing, consciousness, bliss / cDavid Bentley Hart.  aNew Haven ; London : bYale University Press, c[2013] c2013.  aix, 365 p. :c22 cm.  ancludes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index.  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.  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.  aGod.  aExperience (Religion)