Research Catalog

Title

Myth, faith, and hermeneutics : cross-cultural studies / R. Panikkar.

Author

Panikkar, Raimon, 1918-2010.

Publication

New York : Paulist Press, ©1979.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 500 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Dialog
• Myth
• Faith > Comparative studies
• Religion > Philosophy
• Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Comparative studies
• East and West
• Theology
• Theology
• myths
• theology
• Faith
• Hermeneutics > Religious aspects
• Buddhismus
• Christentum
• Hinduismus
• Interkulturelle Kompetenz
• Theologie
• Mythen
• Geloof
• Godsdiensten

Genre/Form

Comparative studies.

Note

• Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 462-478.

Contents

• The Volume -- The Title -- The Style -- The Chapters -- Part I: Myth -- Tolerance, Ideology and Myth -- The Law of Tolerance -- Terminological Clarification -- The Four Moments of Tolerance : Political ; Theological ; Philosophical ; Mystical -- Between Ideology and Myth: Tolerance : The Limits of Tolerance ; Ideology and Tolerance ; Tolerance and Myth ; Myth and Ideology -- Morality and Myth. The 'Moral' of Myth and the Myth of Morals -- Morality : The 'Moral' of Myth ; Demythicizing Myth -- Myth : The Myth of Morals ; Demythicizing Morals ; Remythicizing Morals -- The Myth of Prajapati. The Originating Fault or Creative Immolation -- The Problem : The Universal Fact of Pain ; The Awareness of Pain as Pain ; The Christian Answer, Original Sin -- The Myth of Prajapati : Solitude ; Sacrifice ; Integration -- The Hermeneutic : The Originating Fault ; Creative Immolation ; Ontic Redemption -- Sunahsepa. A Myth of the Human Condition -- Myth and History : Mythic Facts and Historical Facts ; The Pluralism of Ideologies and Myths : To Philosophy ; To Theology -- The Sacred History of Sunahsepa : The Narrative (the Legein of the Myth) ; The Context (the Myth of the Legein) : The Sacrifice (Past) ; The Royal Consecration (Present) ; The Sacredness of the Theme (Future) ; The Commentaries (the Logos of the Myth) : The Elements of the Sacred History ; The Human Sacrifice -- The Myth of Human Condition -- The Characters : The Humans : Sunahsepa ; Rohita ; Hariscandra ; Ajigarta ; Visvamitra ; Vasistha ; The People ; The Gods : Varuna ; Indra ; The Vedic Pantheon ; The Cosmos -- The Mythemes -- The Present Mythemes : Presence of Death ; Solidarity of Life ; Transcendental Desire -- The Absent Mythemes : Sexuality ; Political Perspective ; Eschatology -- Deconditioning Man.
• Part II: Faith -- Faith as a Constitutive Human Dimension -- The State of the Problem : Crede ut intelligas ; Crede ut sis ; The Consequences -- The Three Instances of Faith : Orthodoxy ; Orthopoiesis ; Orthopraxis -- Faith as a Human Invariant : Theological Consideration ; Philosophical Reflection -- Excursus on Good Faith -- Witness and Dialogue -- Prologue -- A Double Dialogue: 'Early Christian' and 'Modern Political' -- Thesis: Testimony is Possible Only in a Mythic Communion -- Semantic Reflections -- Testimony as a Relation : Not Dialectical ; Not Merely Dialogical ; Sui generis -- The Relation Between the Witness and the Audience -- Interpreting the Witness -- Witness and Myth -- Silence and the Word. The Smile of the Buddha -- Introduction: The Spirit, the Word and the Name of God -- The Double Silence of Buddha : First Degree Silence: The Silence of Answer ; Second Degree Silence: The Silence of the Question -- The Dialectical Game -- The Dialectic of the Name of God : Single God, One Name ; Many Gods, Many Names ; Many Names, One God ; The Hidden (Revealed) Name of God ; Who? The Interrogative Name of God ; Is 'God' a Euphemism for Man? -- Silence as Answer ; Silence as Question ; The New Innocence ; Reduction to the Sublime -- Three Remaining Problems and One Hypothesis -- Advaita and Bhakti. A Hindu-Christian Dialogue -- Introduction -- A Letter from Vrndavan : Advaita ; Advaita and Love ; Advaitic Love -- The Supreme Experience: The Ways of East and West -- The Problem of Experience : Prologomena ; The Empirical, the Experiment and the Experience ; The Myth -- The Quest for the Supreme Experience : The Experience, its Expression and Interpretation ; The Loss of the Subject ; The Ultimate Experience -- The Ways of West and East -- Eastern and Western Values -- Four Archetypes of the Ultimate : Transcendent Transendence ; Immanent Transcendence ; Transcendent Immanence ; Immanent Immanence -- The Spirit.
• Part III: Hermeneutics -- Metatheology as Fundamental Theology -- A Parable -- The Two Meanings of Fundamental Theology -- Assumptions and Presuppositions -- The Crisis of the Presuppositions -- The Challenge of Universality -- Foundations, A Priori and A Posteriori -- The Unity Between Theology and Fundamental Theology -- One Example: The Buddhist, the Hindu and the Secularist -- The Function of Fundamental Theology -- Metatheology -- Understanding the Christian Kerygma -- The Ecclesial and Dialogical Character of Fundamental Theology -- The Philosophical Tradition -- Introduction -- The Four Kairological Moments of Philosophy : The Religious ; The Metaphysical ; The Epistemological ; The Pragmatic or Historical -- The Threefold Gift and Task of Philosophy : Acceptance of the Logos ; Taking up the Mythos ; Reception of the Pneuma -- The One Mystery -- The God of Being and the 'Being' of God: Religion and Atheism -- Introduction -- The God of Being (Divination of Being) : Anthropomorphism ; Ontomorphism ; Personalism -- The 'Being' of God (De-ontologization of God) : Atheism ; Apophatism ; Radical Relativity -- The Law of Karma and the Historical Dimension of Man -- The Problem -- Some Ideological Notes : Vedas and Brahmanas ; Upanisads ; Tradition ; Summary -- The Karmic Conception of the Universe : The Mythical and the Mythological ; Karma and Cosmos ; Karma and the Absolute ; Karma and the Individual -- Karma and Historicity : Karma and Time ; Karma and History ; Karma and Man -- The Subject of Infallibility. Solipsism and Verification -- Thesis -- The Notion of Infallibility -- The Sociological and Psychological Context -- Can There be a Hermeneutic of Infallibility? -- The Internal Logic of Infallibility -- Human Infallibility -- Infallibility and Orthopraxis -- Infallibility: Cosmic Hope and Eschatological Vision -- Hermeneutic of Religious Freedom: Religion as Freedom -- Freedom of Religion : Freedom as a Duty ; Freedom as a Right -- Religion as Freedom : Religion, Way to Salvation, Means of Liberation ; Religion as the Free Act of Liberation ; Religion as Creative Freedom : From an Anthropological Viewpoint ; From a Cosmological Viewpoint ; A Christian Hermeneutic.

ISBN

• 0809102323
• 9780809102327

LCCN

77099306

OCLC

• ocm05959352
• 5959352
• SCSB-18662

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library