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050			_aBL473 _b.H37 2013
100			_aHart, David Bentley. _950883
245			_aThe experience of God : _bbeing, consciousness, bliss / _cDavid Bentley Hart.
260			_aNew Haven ; London : _bYale University Press, _c[2013] c2013.
300			_aix, 365 p. : _c22 cm.
504			_ancludes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index.
505			_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.
520			_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.
650			_aGod. _950884
650			_aExperience (Religion) _950885
942			_2lcc _cBOOK _hBL 473 _i.H37 2013
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