Infinite paths to infinite reality: Sri Ramakrishna and cross-cultural philosophy of religion
"This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna and brings him into dialogue with recent Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, opens up an entirely...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna and brings him into dialogue with recent Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, opens up an entirely new paradigm for addressing central issues in the philosophy of religion"... |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | xii, 350 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9780190868239 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
xi
A Note on Sanskrit and Bengali Transliteration xiii
Abbreviations of Texts xv
Introduction 1
PA RT ONE: The Infinitude of God
1. Sri Ramakrishnas Harmonizing Philosophy of Vijnana Vedanta 13
I. The Spiritual Basis of Sri Ramakrishnas Philosophical Outlook:
His Upbringing, Religious Practices, and Mystical Experiences 17
IL Five Interpretive Principles for Reconstructing Sri Ramakrishnas
Philosophical Views from the Kathdmrta 19
III. The Central Tenets of Sri Ramakrishnas Vijnana Vedanta 27
IV. Beyond “Neo-Vedanta”: Implications of Sri Ramakrishnas
Philosophy of Vijnana for Discourse on Modern Vedanta 45
2. A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude: Sri Ramakrishna,
Paraconsistency, and the Overcoming of Conceptual Idolatry 51
I. Satyam jiidnam anantam brahma: Sri Ramakrishna in Dialogue
with Sankara, Ramanuja, and Visvanatha Cakravartin 53
II. Scotus and Cusa: Two Medieval Christian Paradigms for
Understanding Divine Infinitude 63
III. The Paraconsistent God: Sri Ramakrishna and
Benedikt Paul Gocke 67
IV. Idol versus Icon: Sri Ramakrishna and Jean-Luc Marion 72
v m i • Contents
PART TWO: Religious Pluralism
3. “All Faiths Are Paths”: A Reconstruction and Defense
of Sri Ramakrishnas yijndna-Bascd Model of Religious Pluralism 85
I. A Reconstruction of Sri Ramakrishnas Model
of Religious Pluralism 88
II. Sri Ramakrishnas Response to the Problem of Conflicting
Religious Truth-Claims 101
III. Addressing Major Objections to Sri Ramakrishnas Religious
Pluralism 109
4. John Hick’s Vedantic Road Not Taken? Hicks Evolving Views on
Religious Pluralism in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna 117
I. Sri Ramakrishnas Legacy: Sri Aurobindo s “Logic of the Infinite”
in the Context of Nonsectarian Vedanta 119
II. The Early Hick’s Aurobindonian Model of Religious Pluralism 124
III. The Ontological Underpinnings of the Later Hick s
Quasi-Kantian Model of Religious Pluralism 133
IV. A Ramakrishnan Critique of Hick s Quasi-Kantian
Pluralist Model 138
V. Adequacy Criteria for Assessing Theories of Religious Pluralism 147
PA RT T H REE: Mystical Experience
5. Beyond Perennialism and Constructivism: Sri Ramakrishnas
Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience 153
I. Perennialist Models 156
II. Constructivist Models 162
III. Sri Ramakrishnas Experiential Method 169
IV. A Reconstruction of Sri Ramakrishnas Manifestationist
Model of Mystical Experience 183
V. Anticipating a Possible Objection 193
6. A Cross-Cultural Defense of the Epistemic Value of Mystical
Experience: Sri Ramakrishna, Self-Authentication, and the Argument
from Experience 196
I. Sri Ramakrishnas Critique of Theological Reason 198
II. Sri Ramakrishna and the Question of Self-Authenticating
Mystical Experience 201
Contents • ix
III. The Argument from Experience in the Light
of Sri Ramakrishna 211
IV. The Cross-Checkability Objection 219
V. The Conflicting Claims Objection 231
PART FOUR: The Problem of Evil
7. Sri Ramakrishnas Multidimensional Response to the Problem of
Evil: Skeptical Theism, Saint-Making Theodicy, and the Panentheistic
Standpoint of Vijhana 241
I. Karma and Lila in the Classical Vedantic Theodicies of Sankara
and Ramanuja 245
II. Sri Ramakrishnas Skeptical Theist Refutation of Evidential
Arguments from Evil 249
III. Sri Ramakrishnas Saint-Making Theodicy 255
IV. Reconciling Sri Ramakrishnas Saint-Making Theodicy with
His Hard Theological Determinism 264
V. Sri Ramakrishna’s Theodical Endgame: The Panentheistic
Standpoint of Vijndna 268
VI. Anticipating Possible Objections 273
8. A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil: Sri Ramakrishna,
the Rowe-Alston Debate, and Hick’s Soul-Making Theodicy 281
I. Skeptical Theist Positions in Dialogue:
Sri Ramakrishna and Alston 282
II. Soul-Making Theodicies in Dialogue:
Sri Ramakrishna and Hick 292
III. A Ramakrishnan Critique of Hick’s Soul-Making Theodicy 297
IV. Toward a Metatheodicy: Adequacy Criteria
for Assessing Theodicies 305
Methodological Postlude 311
Bibliography 315
Index 335
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