Natural ReligionFrederick Turner Routledge, 2017 M07 12 - 304 páginas There is widespread belief that the world's religions con- tradict each other. It follows that if one religion is true, the others must be false--an assumption that implies, and may actually create, religious strife. In Natural Religion, acclaimed poet, critic and essayist Frederick Turner sets out to show that the natural world offers grounds for stating that all religions are, in some respect, true. Through the ages, various ways have been proposed to resolve religious differences. Some argue for the destruction of all religions but one's own. Others substitute an abstract principle for the real ritual and moral practice of religion. Still others doubt all religious truth and, consequently, all truth. Others accept a kind of pluralistic relativism. This book explores syncretism, whereby all religions are seen as grasping the same strange and complex reality, but by very different means and handles. The idea that all religions are true raises a supervening question: if so, what must the real physical universe be like? Turner approaches these questions in terms of scientific inquiry. There is not enough room in space itself to fit in all theologies; but there may be enough room in time if new scientific descriptions of time's nature are to be believed. Turner argues that in the time-models of contemporary cosmological and evolutionary science all times may be connected and time may be infinitely branched and causally looped so that both forward-in-time and backward-in-time factors may be in operation in the same event. Thus, the fundamental substance of the universe may be information rather than matter or energy. The universe is more like a vast living organism than a vast machine. Turner argues that all existing religions can be shown to fit into this model, which in turn points to deeper implications of religious doctrines, languages and practices. There would be plenty of "room" in such a view of time for a tree of different yet linked religious w |
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... kind, error is not just a danger but an inevitable companion. And so I fear lest my many mistakes be attributed to my advisers and informants (whether they know that is what they are, or not) rather than to where they belong, which is ...
... kind, I was the guest. Tolstoy's Levin in Anna Karenina has got to this point when he runs across a major stumbling block: the variety of religions in the world. They cannot all be right, he thinks, or at least he does not believe ...
... kind of being than what is given to ordinary experience. This book tries to imagine what that central subject must be like, and what the world must be like, if all the religions are true, in the sense that each of the world's religions ...
... kind of insight that Newton and Darwin were given. The second inadequacy in the strategy of doubt is that it can lead to an irresponsibility about fact in general, an irresponsibility that has a major moral dimension. One of the great ...
... kind of single superordinate authority or world policeman or New World Order, the very antithesis of political pluralism. If they are outside the bag, in other words if their moral authority cannot be challenged by a pluralism that ...
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Religious and Scientific Truth | |
Freedom Values and Strange Attractors | |
Time | |
The InformationSpirit Universe | |
A Brief History of | |
The Last Times | |
What Each Religion Brings to the Search | |
The Style of | |
Glossary | |
Further Reading | |
Index | |