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In this chapter the definition of revelation to be used in the book is specified: a communication or message, or a disclosure or awareness, whose source is phenomenally received as the divine or religious reality or the transcendent. Though the concept of revelation is more congenial to the theistic traditions, especially the Western Abrahamic traditions, examples of nontheistic revelations attained by the Buddha are noted. The issue of revelation’s relation to scripture is noted, and it is observed that revelation takes different forms.
This introductory chapter concludes with a brief description of the subjects and concerns of the ten chapters that follow.
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Bhagavad-Gita, Chap. 11. Several translations.
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John Baillie, The Idea of Revelation in Recent Thought (New York: Columbia University Press, 1956), p. 31.
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Kellenberger, J. (2021). Introduction. In: Religious Revelation. Palgrave Frontiers in Philosophy of Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53872-9_1
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