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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... philosophical systematizers, and the poets. This book is an attempt to solve that problem, to show in an entirely experimental, playful spirit—and in fear and trembling lest this very conception might be blasphemous—how maybe all the ...
... philosophers and theologians from many times and places. I count five broad ways by which people of different religions might negotiate their differences. 1. They might fight. 2. They might seek a common element in each of their ...
... philosophical religion, which is what one would get if one adopted (2), would have none of the personal passion, rich storytelling, and ritual that make religion religion. Answer (3) is self-contradictory—doubt itself must be doubted ...
... philosophers, seeking the essence or isness or Being or essence or quiddity that underlies all these diverse appearances, or perhaps, like William James, some common psychological factor embedded in human nature that urges us to worship ...
... philosophers, who all sought a divine principle beyond time, change, expression, phenomena, multiplicity. The Sikhs found ways to reconcile the theology of Brahman with that of Allah by a resort to higher level of generality. The ...
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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 | |