Process Mysticism - Couverture souple

Dombrowski, Daniel A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1438491344 ISBN 13 : 9781438491349

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2023

Synopsis

Offers a process philosophical approach to mysticism and mystical religious experience.

Process Mysticism uses the process philosophies of Charles Hartshorne, Alfred North Whitehead, and Henri Bergson to explore mystical religious experiences. The aim is not so much to demonstrate that such experiences are true or veridical as it is to understand, in a William Jamesian fashion, how they could be possible and not contradict the concept of God held by philosophers and theologians. Divine world-inclusiveness, ideal power and tragedy, the ontological argument, asceticism and the via negativa, divine visions and voices, and the aesthetics and ethics of mysticism are all treated in detail. The book is ecumenical in that it is meant to illuminate mystical experiences as they occur around the world in different religious traditions, but the author is especially familiar with those in the Abrahamic religions. "Mysticism" can refer to either direct experience of God or the claim that such experience is ineffable, and both senses of the term are carefully analyzed in the book.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Daniel A. Dombrowski is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University. His previous books include A History of the Concept of God: A Process Approach and Whitehead's Religious Thought: From Mechanism to Organism, From Force to Persuasion, both published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1438491344
• ISBN 13: 9781438491349
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 231
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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