Contradiction and the absolute : theories engaging contradiction in five main world religions / edited by Graham Priest, Behnam Zolghadr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Priest, Graham, editor.

Zolghadr, Behnam, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contradiction--Religious aspects.

Contradiction.

Absolute, The.

Philosophy--History.

Philosophy.

Religion--Philosophy.

Religion.

philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2025]

System Details:

text file PDF

Biography/History:

Graham Priest, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, USA; Behnam Zolghadr, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.

Summary:

Every one of the four major theistic world religions, i.e., Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, holds the existence of a transcendental being. This transcendental being, called by different names, such as God, Allāh, Brahma, etc., has some specific characteristics that, in many cases, appear to imply some contradictions. In contrast to the aforementioned theistic religions, Buddhism is a non-theistic religion. But this, too, court inconsistency. In Buddhism, theories about emptiness or, in some cases, nothingness, have often been seen as contradictory. Let us call the contradictory being in our five religions the absolute. In all of them, the absolute is, in some sense, the ground of reality. Over the centuries, some theologians and philosophers, in order to give an account of this absolute ground, have argued that its nature is indeed contradictory. This volume, which has an historical approach, is about such views. It involves the theories of some philosophers and theologians throughout history concerning the contradictions of the absolute.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Dedication

Contents

1Introduction: Facing Contradiction in the Absolute / Behnam Zolghadr, Graham Priest

Asian Philosophy

1011Transcendental Contradictions: The Spectre of Non-Being in Early to Middle Brāhmanic-Hindu Thought-System / Purushottama Bilimoria

39"It is Distant, it is Near"

Vedāntic Hindu Visions of Divine Contradictions / Ankur Barua

61Contradictions and Certainty: The Mīmāṃsā Defense of the Authorless Veda / Andreas Kapsner, Paolo Visigalli

77Buddhism, Emptiness, and Paradox / Graham Priest

89All in One Mind. Huayan's Holistic Panbuddhism / Sebastian Gäb

105Heidegger and Dōgen on the Ineffable / Filippo Casati, Graham Priest

Christian Philosophy

138139Contradiction and God Between Neoplatonism and the Byzantine Tradition: Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, and Nicholas of Methone / Jonathan Greig

169The Ways God Overcomes Contradictions in Human Understanding: Nicholas of Cusa / Paul Richard Blum

185Identity and non-Identity of the Human Soul with God in Meister Eckhart's Metaphysical Mysticism / Elisabeth Blum

211Hegel's Absolute from a Logical Point of View / Elena Ficara

221The One, the Many, and the Trinity: A Dialetheist Response to the Trinitarian Contradiction / Susana Gómez Gutiérrez

Jewish and Islamic Philosophy

250251"Laud and praise Him justly and uprightly, not by attributing to Him exaggerations and absurdities": God and logic in Jewish thought / Israel Netanel Rubin

269On Ayin, or the Divine Nothing / Filippo Casati

289Transcendence vs. Immanence in Jewish Philosophy and Poetry / Warren Zev Harvey

297God's attributes; Are aḥwāl contradictory? / Behnam Zolghadr

311God and Impossibility: A Classical Ashʿarī Perspective / Abdurrahman Ali Mihirig

347Is Being Contradictory?

Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Principle of Non-Contradiction / Hani Mohseni.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed May 28, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Contradiction and the absolute.

ISBN:

3111369986

9783111369983

OCLC:

1546503571

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