02099nam a22002657a 4500 AUA.1 20150915163507.0 150915t xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 2013007118 9780300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) JTL BL473 .H37 2013 Hart, David Bentley. 50883 The experience of God : being, consciousness, bliss / David Bentley Hart. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013] c2013. ix, 365 p. : 22 cm. ncludes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index. God, 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. Despite 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. God. 50884 Experience (Religion) 50885 lcc BOOK BL 473 .H37 2013 14319 14319 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2015-09-15 Bought by JTL 15.00 AUA017391 BL 473 .H37 2013 AUA017391 2015-09-15 00:00:00 15.00 2015-09-15 BOOK