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A revised and expanded edition of a classic volume by one of the giants in his field, Raimon Panikkar, this significant volume discusses faith and belief in multireligious experience, with emphasis on understanding one's own religion and tradition before attempting to understand someone else's. Panikkar begins by pointing out the prevailing attitudes and critical models for attaining a pluralism standing "between unrelated plurality and a monolithic unity." For the author this is a pluralism which "takes our factual situation as real and affirms that in the actual polarities of our human experience we find our real being." He describes an intrareligious dialogue in which faith is not confused with belief, in which religious encounter must be a truly religious one, and in which the participants overcome temptation to defend themselves. The major religions of the world and particularly the Christian, Hindu and Buddhist traditions are seen as the response to the human predicament, "that Man is a being not yet finished, a reality unachieved, growing, becoming, on the way, a pilgrim." It means for each person to "touch the shore of nothingness provided he does not rest in that non-existing place. It means to develop all the human potentialities, provided these are not artificially concocted dreams. It means finally to know and accept the human predicament and, at the same time, to recognize that this very human predicament carries with it the constant overcoming of all that Man is now."
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Ubrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Panikkar, Raimon, 191� The
intrareligious dialogue I Raimon Panikkar. - Rev. ed.
p. em . Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8091-3763-1 (alk. paper) 1. Religions-Relations. 2. Christianity and other religions. I. Title. BU10.P36
1999
291.1'72-dc21
98-49313 CIP
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Contents
Ust of Abbreviations
VII
The lntrareligious Dialogue
ix
Preface to the New Edition
xi
A Note to the Reader
xiii
Preface
XV
THE SERMON
ON
ntE MOUNT Of INTRAREUGIOUS DIALOGUE
1. THE RH£TORJC OF ntE DIALOGUE
1 3
1. Five Attitudes
5
Ezclusivism
5
lnclusroism
6
Paralltlism
7 9
lnt�ttration Pluralism
10
2. Five Models
11
(Aogrtlplric/Jl: 1M Ways to IM Mount11in Pftlk
12
PhysiaJJ: The RsJirrbow
15
GftJmdriaU: 1M TopologiciJllnVIIrillnt
17
Anthropologia�l: I.Angw�g�
19
Mystiall: Silmct
22
2. THE DIALOGICAL DIALOGUE
23
1. Background
23
2. Thesis
26 iii
iv
CONTENTS
3. Dialogue and Dialectics
27
4. Dialectical Dialogue
29
5.
Dialogical Dialogue
29
6.
Thinking and Being
32
7. S ubject and
Object
8. land Thou
9.
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Myth and Logos
3. FAIDt AND BEUEF: A MULTIREUGIOUS ExPERIENCE
1.
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Introduction<