Image of God has many names

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God has many names

What was the message? He thinks their needs to be a “Copernican” revolution of sorts, where instead of religions revolving around their particular revelation, be it Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, etc... it instead revolves around God. Though he doesn't use the metaphor, I think the Elephant and the blindmen expresses it well, we can liken God to the Elephant, who as a whole is unknowable, infinite, the ground of all being, the Absolution and eternal One in whom we live, move and have our being, the blind humans in the context of their presuppositions can grasp and experience something of the Divine, some will interpret it personal ways and other in non-personal ways. Once they do, they tend to make what they grabbed onto the end all and be all. Gradually, due to globalism, people learn how there are many others who claim to know God, initially there is exclusivity, a reaction that rejects every other experience of God as being wrong, but some finally some begin to let go of their bigotry and become inclusive. When we understand we cannot know God as he actually is, but only what we as finite human beings can perceive and interpret, we can recognize that maybe God has been revealing himself in all cultures, yet there has been radically different ways the finite have interpreted divine revelation. It is interesting how both Eastern and Western religions have the sense of God as the absolute, ground of all being, so possibly, at bottom when religions throughout the world refer to eternal God, the source of all being.

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261.2 HIC g
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Philadelphia : The Westminster Press.,
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140p.; 21 cm.
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English
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0-664-24419-X
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CHRISTIANITY AND OTHER RELIGIONS
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Statement of Responsibility
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