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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... element in each of their experiences. They might fall into radical doubt. They might accept multiple accounts of reality. 3. 4. 5. They might syncretize their experiences, putting them all together The Problem A World of Different ...
... reality but an intent to deceive or confuse? Surely the most belittling act of all is to devalue another's actual experience, to ignore the validity of his selfhood, to attempt to replace his point of view with one's own. The others ...
... reality, to the death. It is hardly necessary to list the holy wars and ideological slaughters that this approach has produced. Each tribe has its own fierce and dear and familiar deities, who preside over hearth and home, and protect ...
... reality religion describes is not the same thing as the highest common factor of all the diverse doctrines about it. And this reflection should give us pause when we realize that many of the noblest attempts of human philosophy and ...
... reality of the divine might be a strange Rube Goldberg contraption, and realize that the shining, featureless sphere of the philosophical religions is not necessarily an improvement. But this reality is one which some have indeed ...
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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 | |