Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality Sri Ramakrishna and Cross Cultural Philosophy of Religion 1st Edition by Ayon Maharaj 0190868253 9780190868253

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ISBN-10 :  0190868253 

ISBN-13 :  9780190868253

Author : Ayon Maharaj 

Sri Ramakrishna is widely known as a nineteenth-century Indian mystic who affirmed the harmony of all religions on the basis of his richly varied spiritual experiences and eclectic religious practices, both Hindu and non-Hindu. In Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality, Ayon Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna was also a sophisticated philosopher of great contemporary relevance.Through a careful study of Sri Ramakrishna’s recorded oral teachings in the original Bengali, Maharaj reconstructs his philosophical positions and analyzes them from a cross-cultural perspective. Sri Ramakrishna’s spiritual journey culminated in the exalted state of “vijñana,” his term for the “intimate knowledge” of God as the Infinite Reality that is both personal and impersonal, with and without form, immanent in the universe and beyond it. This expansive spiritual standpoint of vijñana, Maharaj contends, opens up a new paradigm for addressing central issues in cross-cultural philosophy of religion, including divine infinitude, religious pluralism, mystical experience, and the problem of evil. Sri Ramakrishna’s vijñana-based religious pluralism–when grasped in all its subtlety–proves to have major philosophical advantages over dominant Western models. Moreover, his mystical testimony and teachings not only cut across long-standing debates about the nature of mystical experience but also bolster recent defenses of its epistemic value. Maharaj further demonstrates that Sri Ramakrishna’s unique response to the problem of evil resonates strongly with Western “soul-making” theodicies and contemporary theories of skeptical theism. A pioneering interdisciplinary study of one of India’s most important philosopher-mystics, Maharaj’s book is essential reading for scholars and students in philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and Hindu studies.

Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality: Sri Ramakrishna & Cross Cultural Philosophy of Religion 1st Table of contents:

Part One: The Infinitude of God
1. Sri Ramakrishna’s Harmonizing Philosophy of Vijñāna Vedānta
I. The Spiritual Basis of Sri Ramakrishna’s Philosophical Outlook: His Upbringing, Religious Practices, and Mystical Experiences
II. Five Interpretive Principles for Reconstructing Sri Ramakrishna’s Philosophical Views from the Kathāmṛta
III. The Central Tenets of Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna Vedānta
IV. Beyond “Neo-Vedānta”: Implications of Sri Ramakrishna’s Philosophy of Vijñāna for Discourse on Modern Vedānta
2. A Cross-Cultural Inquiry into Divine Infinitude: Sri Ramakrishna, Paraconsistency, and the Overcoming of Conceptual Idolatry
I. Satyaṃ jñānam anantaṃ brahma: Sri Ramakrishna in Dialogue with Śaṅkara, Rāmānuja, and Viśvanātha Cakravartin
II. Scotus and Cusa: Two Medieval Christian Paradigms for Understanding Divine Infinitude
III. The Paraconsistent God: Sri Ramakrishna and Benedikt Paul Göcke
IV. Idol versus Icon: Sri Ramakrishna and Jean-Luc Marion
Part Two: Religious Pluralism
3. “All Faiths Are Paths”: A Reconstruction and Defense of Sri Ramakrishna’s Vijñāna-Based Model of Religious Pluralism
I. A Reconstruction of Sri Ramakrishna’s Model of Religious Pluralism
II. Sri Ramakrishna’s Response to the Problem of Conflicting Religious Truth-Claims
III. Addressing Major Objections to Sri Ramakrishna’s Religious Pluralism
4. John Hick’s Vedāntic Road Not Taken? Hick’s Evolving Views on Religious Pluralism in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna
I. Sri Ramakrishna’s Legacy: Sri Aurobindo’s “Logic of the Infinite” in the Context of Nonsectarian Vedānta
II. The Early Hick’s Aurobindonian Model of Religious Pluralism
III. The Ontological Underpinnings of the Later Hick’s Quasi-Kantian Model of Religious Pluralism
IV. A Ramakrishnan Critique of Hick’s Quasi-Kantian Pluralist Model
V. Adequacy Criteria for Assessing Theories of Religious Pluralism
Part Three: Mystical Experience
5. Beyond Perennialism and Constructivism: Sri Ramakrishna’s Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience
I. Perennialist Models
II. Constructivist Models
III. Sri Ramakrishna’s Experiential Method
IV. A Reconstruction of Sri Ramakrishna’s Manifestationist Model of Mystical Experience
V. Anticipating a Possible Objection
6. A Cross-Cultural Defense of the Epistemic Value of Mystical Experience: Sri Ramakrishna, Self-Authentication, and the Argument from Experience
I. Sri Ramakrishna’s Critique of Theological Reason
II. Sri Ramakrishna and the Question of Self-Authenticating Mystical Experience
III. The Argument from Experience in the Light of Sri Ramakrishna
IV. The Cross-Checkability Objection
V. The Conflicting Claims Objection
Part Four: The Problem of Evil
7. Sri Ramakrishna’s Multidimensional Response to the Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism, Saint-Making Theodicy, and the Panentheistic Standpoint of Vijñāna
I. Karma and Līlā in the Classical Vedāntic Theodicies of Śaṅkara and Rāmānuja
II. Sri Ramakrishna’s Skeptical Theist Refutation of Evidential Arguments from Evil
III. Sri Ramakrishna’s Saint-Making Theodicy
IV. Reconciling Sri Ramakrishna’s Saint-Making Theodicy with His Hard Theological Determinism
V. Sri Ramakrishna’s Theodical Endgame: The Panentheistic Standpoint of Vijñāna
VI. Anticipating Possible Objections
8. A Cross-Cultural Approach to the Problem of Evil: Sri Ramakrishna, the Rowe-Alston Debate, and Hick’s Soul-Making Theodicy
I. Skeptical Theist Positions in Dialogue: Sri Ramakrishna and Alston
II. Soul-Making Theodicies in Dialogue: Sri Ramakrishna and Hick
III. A Ramakrishnan Critique of Hick’s Soul-Making Theodicy
IV. Toward a Metatheodicy: Adequacy Criteria for Assessing Theodicies

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