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Paperback Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology Book

ISBN: 0791401995

ISBN13: 9780791401996

Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology

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Proposes religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity.

In this book, Huston Smith and David Ray Griffin propose religious philosophies to succeed the waning worldview of modernity. Huston Smith proposes the perennial philosophy or primordial tradition, and David Ray Griffin offers postmodern process theology. The ultimate issue debated is whether we should return to a traditional religious philosophy or seek a new never-before-articulated worldview.

The debate covers the following issues: the relation of Christianity to other religions; the ultimate reality of a personal God in relation to a transpersonal absolute; the ultimate reality of time and progress; the problem of evil; the nature of immortality; the relation of humans to nature; the relation of science to theology; the relation of upward to downward causation; and the possibility of nonrelativistic criteria for deciding between competing worldviews.

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Unbalanced Debate

This is an extended debate between David Ray Griffin, probably the most prominent contemporary exponent of process theology, and Huston Smith, a scholar and popularising exponent of the so-called Perennialist School, whose luminaries are Frithjof Schuon, Rene Guenon, Seyyed Hossein Nasr, and their colleagues. Each critiques the other's philosophical theology as a response to modernity. Unfortunately, Smith is somewhat out of his league. Griffin's criticisms are quite devastating -- though of course very polite -- and mostly go unanswered. For a perennialist with an open mind, this would be a disturbing read, since Griffin really lays bare the deficiencies of the perennialist doctrines, and Smith can't do very much to attack the process approach. Theodicy is one area in which Smith and the perennialists take an especially heavy beating. All in all, if you have interest in process theology and in perennialism, and especially if you are struggling between them as personal philosophical alternatives, this is a "must read."
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