God or the Divine? : : Religious Transcendence beyond Monism and Theism, between Personality and Impersonality / / ed. by Marcus Schmücker, Bernhard Nitsche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Baab, Florian,; Bannon, Brad,; Brück, Michael von,; Büchner, Christine,; Cahill, Timothy,; Clooney, Francis X.,; Colas, Gérard,; Fredericks, James L.,; Gimello, Robert M.,; Hirota, Dennis,; Hopkins, Steven P.,; MacDonald, Anne,; Mathes, Klaus-Dieter,; Mishra, Godabarisha,; Nemec, John,; Nitsche, Bernhard,; O’Leary, Joseph S.,; Plassen, Jörg,; Rambachan, Anantanand,; Röllicke, Hermann-Josef,; Schmidt-Leukel, Perry,; Schmücker, Marcus,; Sheth, Noel,; Voss Roberts, Michelle,; Völker, Fabian,; Zydenbos, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Nitsche, Bernhard,; Schmücker, Marcus,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 518 p.)

Is there a language of transcendence which does not fall under the well-worn categories of monism, theism, pantheism, biblical or pagan monotheism, personal or tripersonal God, or an impersonal absolute, conceived as immanent and/or transcendent? The present set of studies from different fields of r...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• Dimensions of Human Existence as Dimensions of the Hermeneutics of Transcendence
• God or the Divine?
• Transcendence in Difference to Creation: A Christian Essential as a Problem of Modern Philosophical Theorizing
• I Buddhism
• The “Entangled” Presence of the Unconditioned: A Buddhist Vision of “Transimmanence”
• Effort and Grace in Relationship with the Transcendent in Buddhism
• Nirvāṇa as “Unconditioned” (asaṃskṛta) and “Transcendent” (lokottara) Reality
• Considerations on the Inappropriateness of the “Transcendence” Paradigm to the Hermeneutics of Buddhist Scriptures
• The World Transcendent. A Madhyamaka Interpretation
• Is All-Unity a Possibility in Mahāyāna Thought? Some Musings Centering on Huayan Expositions of the Net of Indra
• Unity of Consciousness in Buddhism
• Dependent Arising (pratītyasamutpāda) and the Problem of Continuity: Does the Concept Lead to an Idea of All-Unity?
• Jinen as Transcendent Reality in Shinran
• The Status of Amida Buddha as a Person: Henri de Lubac’s Encounter with Pure Land Buddhism
• The Tetralemma, the Two Truths, Skilful Means, and Divine Personality
• II Hinduism
• Potters, Human and Divine: Manifesting Śaṅkara’s Īśvara through Pedagogy, Playdough, and Personhood
• Ontological Interpretation of Śaṅkara and the Question of Non-Dualism
• The World and the (Non)Transcendent: A Reflection on Some Abundant and Elusive Possibilities from the Brahminical Traditions
• The Supreme Being: A Person?
• Gnoseological Interpretation of Śaṅkara: A Proposal for the Relationality of Saguṇa and Nirguṇa Brahman
• Śiva’s Claim to Identity: Can Personalism in a Theistic Tradition of a Strict Identity Survive?
• The Bhedâbheda (Difference and Non-difference) of Nimbārka
• Madhva’s Concept of Divine Personality and Personalism
• “The Deepest Insoluble Embarrassment of Abstract Monism”: Śaṅkara and Schelling on the Origin of the Finite World of Appearance
• Theology in Poetry: Divinity, Humanity, and the Natural World in Veṅkaṭanātha’s Haṃsasandeśa
• Aesthetic Experience as a Mediator Between Personal and Impersonal Transcendence
• How Can Christian Theology and Hinduist Theology have Resonance?
• Blurry Vision as Transcendence: Lessons from Non-dual Śaivism
• The Divine Gift according to Rāmānuja, Sudarśanasūri and Veṅkaṭanātha
• Contributors
• Index