RELEVANCE OF ADVAITA VEDANTA IN CHRISTIAN AND SCIENTISTIC AGE

It has become commonplace to refer to the world as a global village. Given that metaphor, the desirability, even the urgency, of inter-religious understanding hardly requires defending. I would like to endorse the proposal of the late Ninian Smart, Keith Ward, and others that a central goal of dia...

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Published in:Journal of Dharma
Main Author: Wollenberg, Bruce G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Dharmaram College 2007
In: Journal of Dharma
Further subjects:B ADVAITA VEDANTA
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Summary:It has become commonplace to refer to the world as a global village. Given that metaphor, the desirability, even the urgency, of inter-religious understanding hardly requires defending. I would like to endorse the proposal of the late Ninian Smart, Keith Ward, and others that a central goal of dialogue ought to be articulating a global theology based on the premise that various religious traditions are the common property of our species. Such an enterprise would not conduce to a blended religion or a bland amalgam of faith clichés but rather to a strategy of addressing large problems in a coherent fashion.
ISSN:0253-7222
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma