A ‘No’ at the Core of Life: Doing Transreligious Theology with William James
The purpose of this essay is to unpack the relevance of William James for the project of a transreligious theology. While the resources of reason and spiritual experience have long been employed to arbitrate both within and between different spiritual traditions, I argue that James offers a third pr...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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De Gruyter
2016
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Open theology
Jahr: 2016, Band: 2, Heft: 1, Seiten: 229–235 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
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B Ethics B William James B Philosophy of religion B transreligious theology |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The purpose of this essay is to unpack the relevance of William James for the project of a transreligious theology. While the resources of reason and spiritual experience have long been employed to arbitrate both within and between different spiritual traditions, I argue that James offers a third principle: the encouragement of the morally active life, along with a corresponding depiction of the universe in which our efforts may contribute to the nature of things. |
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| ISSN: | 2300-6579 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Open theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/opth-2016-0017 |