Vaisnava Concepts of God

ISBN-13: 9781032557557 / Twarda / 2023 / 272 str.

Opis

This book analyses the concepts of God in Vaiṣṇavism. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of philosophy of religion and Indian philosophy, cross-cultural and comparative philosophy, analytic philosophy of religion, Hindu studies, theology and religious studies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The concept of god in the Bhavagad-Gītā: A panentheistic account; 3. Beauty and form as a corollary of a perfect being: Kṛṣṇa in the Bhāgavata-Purāṇa; 4. The nature of God in the Pāñcarātra with specific reference to the Jayākhya-Saṃhitā; 5. Supreme Self and Supreme Lord: Cosmological monotheism in the Mahābhārata epicr; 6. The Āḻvār concept of God and Tamil Vaiṣṇavism: If we examine, there is but one God! 7. Two conceptions of the relation between self and God: The debate between Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja; 8. In defence of divine transcendence: Madhva’s critique of ‘material panentheism’; 9. Non-theism and theism in the Nimbārka Sampradāya; 10. Embodiment and abstraction: God in Puṣṭimārga; 11. On śaktis and their divine possessor: Towards a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava concept of God; 12.  Harmonising the personal God with the impersonal Brahman: Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna Vedānta in dialogue with Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavism; 13. The God of yoga: Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda and divine pedagogy addressing divine hiddenness; Index

O autorze

Ricardo Sousa Silvestre is Associate Professor at Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil, professor of the Graduate Program in Philosophy at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and president of the Logic and Religion Association (LARA). He is also the leader of the project “Concepts of God and the Variety of Theisms in Indian Traditions”, funded by the John Templeton Foundation. He has authored and edited several books, including Beyond Faith and Rationality: Essays on Logic, Religion and Philosophy (2020).

 

Alan C. Herbert is presently a Post-doctoral research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies (OCHS), Oxford University, UK. He is also co-director of a sociological research project looking at issues in contemporary Hinduism connected with the OCHS and Brunel University, London, UK.

 

Benedikt Paul Göcke is Professor for the Philosophy of Religion and the Philosophy of Science at the Faculty of Catholic Theology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany, a Research Fellow in Philosophy at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University, UK and a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, UK.