| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Hisotry of religions: Methodology as metaphor -- The difficult path -- What's in a name? -- Butterfly in a mirror -- A theological reflection on mystical experience -- The Jesus way of living without a why -- Living without a why: The way of Grace |
| Summary |
In this book Paul O. Ingram adds his voice to a long list of writers seeking to relate Christian tradition to the hard realities of this post-Christian age of religious and secular pluralism. As a Lutheran, Ingram thinks grace flows over this universe like a waterfall. So he brings Christian mystical theology into a discussion of the meaning of grace. Alfred North Whitehead's philosophical vision provides a language that serves as a hermeneutical bridge by which historians of religions can interpret the teachings and practices of religious Ways other than their own without falsification, and by |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 6, 2014) |
| Subject |
Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310.
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| SUBJECT |
Porete, Marguerite, approximately 1250-1310 fast |
| Subject |
Christianity and other religions -- Buddhism.
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Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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Buddhism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- General.
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Buddhism
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Christianity
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Interfaith relations
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Mysticism -- Middle Ages
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Trelstad, Marit, 1967-
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| ISBN |
9781630874513 |
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1630874515 |
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