Studies in Religion
A Comparative Approach to Theological and Philosophical Themes
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Liberation Theology: Bonhoeffer and Gandhi
The purpose of this essay is to examine critically the relation between faith and action in liberation theology as expressed in the writings of Gustavo Gutierrez and Juan Luis Segundo; to show how this reflect...
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Vivekānanda and Essentialism
A significant tenet in Vivekanānda’s teaching is his belief in the unity of existence and the essential unity of all religions. It is his contention that God permeates all that exists from lower to higher form...
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Śūnyatā: Objective Referent or Via Negativa?
This essay examines the concept of śūnyatū as it is formulated in the Hrdaya sūtras of the Buddhist prajñā-pāramitā literature and in the Mūlamadhamaka-kārikās of Nāgārjuna.1 An attempt will be made to point out ...
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Symbols and Religious Language
If we were to attempt to define a symbol we might say that ‘whatever has meaning is a symbol and the meaning is whatever is expressed by the symbol’.1 Given such a comprehensive definition it could be argued that...
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Paul Tillich and the Historical Jesus
The problem of the relation of history to faith and the effect of historical criticism on Christian belief has proved to be a matter of continuing concern to a generation of theologians and Paul Tillich is no ...
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Gandhi’s Concept of Truth and the Advaita Tradition
It is difficult to understand Gandhi’s philosophy without some kind of idea of what he means by Truth. When I asked some of his followers in India what they thought he meant by Truth their replies showed quite...
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Religion and Religions: Gandhi and Tillich
This essay seeks to analyse the views of Gandhi and Tillich on the subject of religion. It seeks to show that Gandhi’s view of religion is inextricably bound up with the Hindu way of life and has implications ...
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Modern Hinduism
Any attempt to give an account of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries must of necessity be selective. What I propose to do in this essay is to select those thinkers who may be regarded as inheri...
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The One and the Many: Radhakrishnan’s Concept of Religion
An analysis of the one and the many might take as its starting point the distinction between monotheism and polytheism and any kind of evaluation of polytheistic systems might well begin with the question whet...
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Conceptions of the Self in Wittgenstein, Hume and Buddhism: An Analysis and Comparison
The purpose of this paper is to show that Wittgenstein’s arguments against the Cartesian model of the self find some parallels in the Pudgalavādin (Personalist) controversy within Buddhism, and that Hume’s rej...
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A Wittgensteinian Approach to the Philosophy of Religion
The Wittgensteinian approach to the philosophy of religion owes much to the influence of Rush Rhees but is best exemplified in the work of D.Z. Phillips, whose writings have given a new direction to the philos...
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Truth, Religion and Non-Violence
This paper is divided into three sections. The first examines what Gandhi means by the term Truth; the second looks at the relationship between Truth and Religion; and the third notes the inextricable relation...
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Gandhi’s Philosophy of Education
In order to understand Gandhi’s thought it is important in my view to be aware of what he means by Truth. It is no accident or coincidence that he should have given his autobiography the subtitle The Story of my ...
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Towards a Theology of Religions
Religious pluralism has become a stock phrase and there have been a variety of approaches to what has been called the pluralistic situation of today. It is not at all clear in what way the religious pluralisti...
