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The beginning and the end of 'religion' / Nicholas Lash.
LIBRA BR50 .L345 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lash, Nicholas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Theology.
- Religion.
- Christianity and other religions--Hinduism.
- Christianity and other religions.
- Hinduism.
- Hinduism--Relations--Christianity.
- Relations.
- Christianity.
- Theology--Methodology.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 284 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- Is The Subject-Matter Of Theology Everything There is, considered in relation to the mystery of God as the source and life and destiny of all things? Or is it a particular district of experience and language and behaviour called 'religion'? The latter view, which makes religion something quite separate from politics, art, science, law and economics, is peculiar to modern Western culture. But, according to Professor Lash, the 'modern' world is ending, and the consequent confusion contains the possibility of discovering new forms of ancient wisdom which the 'modern' world obscured from view.
- These essays explore this idea in a number of directions: Part One examines the dialogue between Christianity and Hindusim, while Part Two considers the relations between theology and science, the secularity of Western culture, and questions of Christian hope or eschatology.
- Contents:
- Part 1 A Meeting-Place For Truth
- 1 The beginning and the end of 'religion'? 3
- 2 Prophecy and peace 26
- 3 Reality, wisdom and delight 49
- Part 2 Emerging From Modernity
- 4 Observation, revelation and the posterity of Noah 75
- 5 On what kinds of things there are 93
- 6 Contemplation, metaphor and real knowledge 112
- 7 When did the theologians lose interest in theology? 132
- 8 Anselm seeking 150
- 9 Creation, courtesy and contemplation 164
- 10 Hollow centres and holy places 183
- 11 Hoping against hope, or Abraham's dilemma 199
- 12 Eagles and sheep: Christianity and the public order beyond modernity 219
- 13 Incarnation and determinate freedom 237
- 14 Beyond the end of history? 252.
- Notes:
- Some of the lectures were originally delivered as the 1994 Teape lectures.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521562325
- 0521566355
- OCLC:
- 33442772
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