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One God of All?: Probing Pluralist Identities

One God of All?: Probing Pluralist Identities

Hallett, Garth

Hardcover

PhilosophyComparative ReligionReligion General

ISBN10: 0826446329
ISBN13: 9780826446329
Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
Published: Oct 21 2010
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The claim has repeatedly been made, and has often been contested, that a single transcendent being is present or active in all of the world's major religions. In this view, names such as God, Allah, nirvana, Vishnu, and Brahman all refer to the same transcendent reality. Absent from the debate and here provided is a serious study of such claims in the light of the most pertinent philosophical literature, namely that concerning questions of identity and individuation. Of necessity, the terms that the claims employ are very general and abstract: the world's religions, it is said, all refer to the same thing, being, or reality. Although analogy, rightly understood, can back the transcendent extension of descriptive expressions such as wise, good, and powerful, it cannot do likewise for expressions such as one, same, and many. So pluralists' identity claims appear empty. Hallett scrutinizes the soundness of this critique, its broad implications, and the possibility of replacing empty identity claims with suitable parables or comparisons.

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