Religious Truth

Robert Cummings Neville is Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology at Boston University, and Dean of the School of Theology. He has written many books, including most recently, Behind the Masks of God: An Essay Toward Comparative Theology; Normative Cultures; The Truth of Broken Symbols; and Boston Confucianism: Portable Tradition in the Late-Modern World , all published by SUNY Press.

Foreword
Jonathan Z. Smith

Preface: Comparing Religious Ideas
Robert Cummings Neville

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman

1. Truth in Chinese Religion
Livia Kohn and James Miller

2. From Truth to Religious Truth in Hindu Philosophical Theology
Francis X. Clooney, S.J., with Hugh R. Nicholson

3. "With Great Noise and Mighty Whirlpools the Ganges Flowed Backwards": Buddhist Approaches to Truth
Malcolm David Eckel

4. "To Practice Together Truth and Humility, Justice and Law, Love of Merciful Kindness and Modest Behavior"
Anthony J. Saldarini with Joseph A. Kanofsky

5. Patristic Prama and Pramana: Augustine and the Quest for Truth
Paula Fredriksen

6. The Taxonomy of Truth in the Islamic Religious Doctrine and Tradition
S. Nomanul Haq

7. Religious Truth in the Six Traditions: A Summary
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman

8. A Contemporary Understanding of Religious Truth
Robert Cummings Neville and Wesley J. Wildman

9. On the Nature of Religion: Lessons We Have Learned
Wesley J. Wildman and Robert Cummings Neville

10. Director's Conclusions
Robert Cummings Neville

Appendix A: On the Process of the Project During the Third Year
Wesley J. Wildman

Appendix B: Suggestions for Further Reading

Contributors

Index of Names

Index of Subjects