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Transcendence in a Pluralistic Context — A Reply

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Religion without Transcendence?

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There are a variety of ways of approaching the question of whether there can be ‘religion without transcendence’.

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  1. Ninian Smart, Reasons and Faiths (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1958), especially Chapters 1 and 2.

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  2. Ninian Smart, ‘Myth and Transcendence’, The Monist 50 (1966), p. 477.

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  3. Louis Dupré, The Ultimate Dimension (Garden City, N.J.: Doubleday, 1972), p. 16.

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  4. Ninian Smart, The Philosophy of Religion (New York: Oxford University Press, 1979), p. 29.

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  5. William A. Christian, Sr, Meaning and Truth in Religion (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964), p. 178. My remarks in this and the following paragraphs are dependent in part on Christian’s discussion of types of basic religious proposals.

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Augustine Di Noia, J. (1997). Transcendence in a Pluralistic Context — A Reply. In: Phillips, D.Z., Tessin, T. (eds) Religion without Transcendence?. Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25915-1_9

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