PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION: A contemporary introduction

42 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION taken with tongs from the altar. And he touched my mouth, and said: “Behold, this has touched your li ...

SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 43 Experience 5: This monk life leads to complete detachment, to freedom from desire, to peace, to ...

44 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION supreme understanding, on the supreme path to final liberation, which is the fruit of veracity, contr ...

SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 45 Experience 14: He reached Nirvana, the complete and full, the unobstructed, unimpeded, infinite ...

46 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION peace of knowledge, one’s nature purified – in that way, however, by meditating, one does behold him ...

SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 47 Being X is of a fundamentally different kind from being Y if (i) X has the property^4 existing ...

48 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION discussed in a later chapter), at least this much seems clear: if any of Experiences 1 through 4 are ...

SORTS OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE 49 omniscient, knowing the entire history of the world. This is a different sort of claim – a clai ...

50 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION those experiences will be of different sorts. Finally, since those experiences, if they have occurred ...

CHAPTER 5 The importance of doctrine and the distinctness of religious traditions Doctrine “Truth-claims” Identity Diversity Que ...

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5 The importance of doctrine and the distinctness of religious traditions Doctrine Agreement on the importance of doctrine I t i ...

54 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION some erroneous idea cannot even clear away doubt, recognition of reality will not arise and consequen ...

DOCTRINE AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 55 others’ diagnoses to be in error and the others’ cures to be ineffective regarding what the ...

56 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION It is worth noting and emphasizing that these passages are not simply exceptions that do not deeply r ...

DOCTRINE AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 57 sort of popular religious perspective that supposes all religions to be down- deep identica ...

58 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION identity affirmatively. So long as one makes the suggested criterion for identity of content vague an ...

DOCTRINE AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 59 someone suggests that all religions have the same content if they all agree on some such cl ...

60 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION Creaturehood, sin, forgiveness, and the Divine Person as well, are illusory; all there is is qualityl ...

DOCTRINE AND RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS 61 identical only if their basic values – what they take to have inherently or intrinsic worth ...