01541cam a2200181 i 4500 9780300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300166842 (cloth : alk. paper) ENG 211 HAR Hart, David Bentley. The experience of God : Being Conciousness, Bliss ix, 365 pages ; God, 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. Despite 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. God. Experience (Religion) BK 0 0 0 0 HMI HMI GEN 2019-10-10 0 211 HAR 25627 2019-10-10 2019-10-10 BK 22742 22742