Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion: Critical Essays and Interviews

Daniel Guerrière

SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1990 - Religion - 323 pages

The question is, what constitutes truth in religion? Represented here is the whole spectrum of phenomenology--transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, ethical, and deconstructive--presented by some of the most respected names in the philosophy of religion today: Louis Dupré, Merold Westphal, and Edward Farley. Here is also engagement with a wide variety of twentieth-century thinkers such as Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger; Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Derrida; Freud, van der Leeuw, and Eliade; and Rosenzweig, Tillich, and Schillebeeks.

This volume provides unique sources for anyone interested in the philosophical, theological, or scientific study of religion.

Contents

• Truth in Religion and Truth of Religion: 19
• Religious Truth and Scientific Truth: 43
• Truth and the Wisdom of Enduring: 60
• The Truth the Nontruth and the Untruth Proper to Religion: 75
• Phenomenologies and Religious Truth: 105
• Ideology and Religion A Hermeneutic Conflict: 126
• Radical Hermeneutics and Religious Truth The Case of Sheehan and Schillebeeckx: 146
• The Face of Truth in Rosenzweig Levinas and Jewish Mysticism: 175
• Freud Husserl Derrida An Experiment: 205
• Divine Truth in Husserl and Kant Some Issues in Phenomenological Theology: 221
• God as the Ideal The AllofMonads and the AllConsciousness: 247
• Notes: 273
• Contributors: 317
• Index: 319

About the author

Daniel Guerrière is Professor of Philosophy at California State University, Long Beach.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Phenomenology of the Truth Proper to Religion: Critical Essays and Interviews; SUNY Series in Transpersonal a; SUNY series in philosophy
• Editor: Daniel Guerrière
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: SUNY Press, 1990
• ISBN: 0791401707, 9780791401705
• Length: 323 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Religious; Religion / General