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Despite the recent ferocious general public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discourse "God" frequently remains vaguely and obscurely referred to. Are those involved in these quarrels even discussing the same thing? Inside a wide-ranging response to the distress, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of the way the phrase "God" functions in the world's great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity's knowledge of the divine mysteries. Creating his debate around three principal metaphysical moments, "being, consciousness, and bliss", the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of certainty and the ultimate certainty to which that experience inevitably issues. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant myths as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart offers a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity's connection with the earth as powerful research for the truth of God and catches the beauty and poetry of traditional representation after the divine.
