01493cam a2200157 i 4500020003900000020003600039041000800075082001300083100002500096245005400121300002000175505021300195520089200408650000901300650002601309  a9780300166842 (cloth : alk. paper)  a0300166842 (cloth : alk. paper)  aENG00a211bHAR1 aHart, David Bentley.14aThe experience of God : Being Conciousness, Bliss  aix, 365 pages ;0 aGod, gods, and the world -- God is not a proper name -- Pictures of the world -- Being, consciousness, bliss -- Being (Sat) -- Consciousness (Chit) -- Bliss (Ananda) -- Reality of God -- Illusion and reality.  aDespite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical "moments" -being, consciousness, and bliss- the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. 0aGod. 0aExperience (Religion)