Natural ReligionFrederick Turner Routledge, 12.07.2017 - 304 Seiten 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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... Metaphors Respecting Reason Avoiding the Trap of Signs and Wonders Using Ritual Rightly Obeying the Moral Law Acknowledging Higher Entities Rejoicing The Task before Us 4 Religious and Scientific Truth Noah's Flood The Caduceus Bottom-up.
Frederick Turner. 4 Religious and Scientific Truth Noah's Flood The Caduceus Bottom-up and Top-down 5 Freedom, Values, and Strange Attractors Chance and Necessity Order Out of Chaos, Chaos Out of Order Meanings Problems in the Study of ...
... it were desirable to do so. It deals with the most important things human beings know, and has its own profound claims to truth. Is there any way of showing that religious differences are not necessarily absolute, Introduction.
... truth, a truth so daily and customary that we fail to see it for what it is. How can this meat of which we are made, this hair-tufted, naked, nimble, rather feeble primate, with its.
... truth about its own experience. To do this is no easy task. We see this when we ask ourselves how people of different religions might deal with their disagreement; the various ways they could do so sum up neatly the core strategies of ...
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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 | |