02561ctm a2200421 i 4500 17698347 20250312110537.0 ta 170706s2013 ctu b 001 0 eng 2013007118 9780300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc BL473 .H37 2013 211 23 Hart, David Bentley. The experience of God : [manuscript] : being, consciousness, bliss / David Bentley Hart. New Haven, : Yale University Press :, c2013. New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2013] ♭b2013 ix, 365 pages ; 22 cm. text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-342) and index. God, 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. Despite 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. God. Experience (Religion) 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default acquire 2 shelf copies policy default BK rc06 2013-04-18 to Dewey (telework) rd06 2013-04-18 rl46 2014-03-25 to CALM rf18 2014-04-16 copy 2 added 8 7431 7431 0 0 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 211 Har 2013 17233 2025-06-30 00:00:00 2025-03-09 BK