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Religious truth / edited by Robert Cummings Neville ; foreword by Jonathan Z. Smith.

Contributor(s): Neville, Robert C
Material type: TextTextSeries: Comparative religious ideas project: Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: xxiv, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0791447782 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0791447774 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Truth -- Religious aspects | ReligionsDDC classification: 291.2 LOC classification: BL492 | .R45 2001Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Truth in Chinese religion / Livia Kohn and James Miller -- From truth to religious truth in Hindu philosophical theology / Francis X. Clooney with Hugh Nicholson -- "With great noise and mighty whirlpools the Ganges flowed backwards": Buddhist approaches to truth / Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil -- "To practice together truth and humility, justice and law, love of merciful kindness and modest behavior" / Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph Kanofsky -- Patristic pramā and pramāṇa: Augustine and the quest for truth / Paula Fredriksen -- The taxonomy of truth in the Islamic religious doctrine and tradition / S. Nomanul Haq -- Religious truth in the six traditions: a summary / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- A contemporary understanding of religious truth / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- On the nature of religion: lessons we have learned / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville -- Director's conclusions / Robert Cummings Neville -- Appendix A: On the process of the project during the third year / Wesley J. Wildman -- Appendix B: Suggestions for further reading.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Truth in Chinese religion / Livia Kohn and James Miller -- From truth to religious truth in Hindu philosophical theology / Francis X. Clooney with Hugh Nicholson -- "With great noise and mighty whirlpools the Ganges flowed backwards": Buddhist approaches to truth / Malcolm David Eckel with John J. Thatamanil -- "To practice together truth and humility, justice and law, love of merciful kindness and modest behavior" / Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph Kanofsky -- Patristic pramā and pramāṇa: Augustine and the quest for truth / Paula Fredriksen -- The taxonomy of truth in the Islamic religious doctrine and tradition / S. Nomanul Haq -- Religious truth in the six traditions: a summary / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- A contemporary understanding of religious truth / Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman -- On the nature of religion: lessons we have learned / Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville -- Director's conclusions / Robert Cummings Neville -- Appendix A: On the process of the project during the third year / Wesley J. Wildman -- Appendix B: Suggestions for further reading.

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