Knowing the unknowable : science and religions on God and the Universe /
Albert Einstein once remarked that behind all observable things lay something quite unknowable. And the motivation for his own work in physics stemmed from something as apparently innocuous as his father first showing him a compass when he was a boy. Yet, the wonder and inspiration of that moment, w...
| Други автори: | Bowker, John, 1935- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
I.B. Tauris,
2009.
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| Серия: |
Library of modern religion ;
2. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=281309 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Knowing the unknowable. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction:
- The unknowable as invitation in science and religion /
- John Bowker
- Taxonomy of absence /
- John Rodwell
- Understanding the radiant sun: the unknown and the unknowable in an example of scientific approach /
- Ramanath Cowsik
- From the unknowability of the universe to the teleology of reason: a phenomenological insight into apophatic cosmology /
- Alexei V. Nesteruk
- On knowing the unknowable: Immanuel Kant and the unknowable real /
- Keith Ward
- Three forms of negativity in Christian mysticism /
- Bernard McGinn
- On clouds and veils: divine presence and 'feminine' secrets in revelation and nature /
- Sarah Coakley
- Knowing the unknowable about God and the universe: humility, hope and the end of knowledge /
- Oliver Davies
- Unknowable not unknown: the poetry of R.S. Thomas /
- Margaret Bowker
- Knowing the unknowable in Indian traditions: representation, absence and cosmology /
- Gavin Flood
- Some theological reflections on Buddhism and the unknowability and hiddenness of God /
- Paul Williams
- Divine absence and the purification of desire: a Hindu saint's experience of a God who keeps his distance /
- Francis X. Clooney
- Afterword:
- Knowing the unknowable /
- Rowan Williams.