Religious Truth for Our Time
by Watt, William MontgomeryFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-10-01
Publisher(s): Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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Summary
Offering ways of addressing the intellectual and practical problemsonfronting today's religions, this study discusses the way forward for thoseho believe in the importance of religious faith in a multi-religious world.t also examines issues such as the limitations of human thought and language,nd the role of world views which form the context within which differenteligions are borne.;The author's other books include "Companion to theur'an" and "The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali".
Author Biography
William Montgomery Watt was Professor Emeritus of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His many books include Compnaion to the Qur'an and The Faith and Practice of Al-Ghazali, also published by Oneworld.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. 7 |
| The Inadequacies of Human Thought and Language | p. 9 |
| The Limitations of Human Language | p. 9 |
| The Social Character of World-Views | p. 13 |
| Truth and Factuality | p. 17 |
| The Place of Patterns in Human Perception | p. 17 |
| The Nature of Truth | p. 25 |
| Truth in the Old Testament | p. 32 |
| The Evidence of Religious Development | p. 32 |
| The Great Truths of the Old Testament | p. 37 |
| Truth in the New Testament | p. 53 |
| The Problem of Miracles | p. 53 |
| The Resurrection of Jesus | p. 56 |
| The Divinity of Jesus | p. 59 |
| The Threefoldness of God | p. 65 |
| God in the Other Religions | p. 68 |
| The Beginnings of Religion | p. 69 |
| Culture and the Religions | p. 74 |
| God in Islam | p. 77 |
| The Religions in Today's World | p. 84 |
| Today's World and Its Problems | p. 84 |
| The New Position of the Religions | p. 88 |
| The Intellectual Problems Confronting the Religions | p. 96 |
| Practical Problems Confronting the Religions | p. 102 |
| Notes | p. 109 |
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