Bibliography 2: #BIB35477

Key	BIB35477
Reference type	Book
Title	The Experience of God : Being, Consciousness, Bliss
Author	Hart, David Bentley
Year	2013
Publisher	Yale University Press
Place published	New Haven, CT ; London
Issue	10.
ISBN	9780300166842 0300166842
Abstract	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.
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: p. 30. LCCN 2013007118. 22 cm. 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.
Language	English
Keywords	GOD; EXPERIENCE
Number of pages	ix, 365
Call number	BL473 .H37 2013 (LC)
Accession number	17698347

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