God or the Divine?: Religious Transcendence beyond Monism and Theism, between Personality and Impersonality

Table of Contents\nPreface\nIntroduction\nDimensions of Human Existence as Dimensions of the Hermeneutics of Transcendence\nGod or the Divine?\nTranscendence in Difference to Creation: A Christian Essential as a Problem of Modern Philosophical Theorizing\nI Buddhism\nThe “Entangled” Presence of the Unconditioned: A Buddhist Vision of “Transimmanence”\nEffort and Grace in Relationship with the Transcendent in Buddhism\nNirvāṇa as “Unconditioned” (asaṃskṛta) and “Transcendent” (lokottara) Reality\nConsiderations on the Inappropriateness of the “Transcendence” Paradigm to the Hermeneutics of Buddhist Scriptures\nThe World Transcendent. A Madhyamaka Interpretation\nIs All-Unity a Possibility in Mahāyāna Thought? Some Musings Centering on Huayan Expositions of the Net of Indra\nUnity of Consciousness in Buddhism\nDependent Arising (pratītyasamutpāda) and the Problem of Continuity: Does the Concept Lead to an Idea of All-Unity?\nJinen as Transcendent Reality in Shinran\nThe Status of Amida Buddha as a Person: Henri de Lubac’s Encounter with Pure Land Buddhism\nThe Tetralemma, the Two Truths, Skilful Means, and Divine Personality\nII Hinduism\nPotters, Human and Divine: Manifesting Śaṅkara’s Īśvara through Pedagogy, Playdough, and Personhood\nOntological Interpretation of Śaṅkara and the Question of Non-Dualism\nThe World and the (Non)Transcendent: A Reflection on Some Abundant and Elusive Possibilities from the Brahminical Traditions\nThe Supreme Being: A Person?\nGnoseological Interpretation of Śaṅkara: A Proposal for the Relationality of Saguṇa and Nirguṇa Brahman\nŚiva’s Claim to Identity: Can Personalism in a Theistic Tradition of a Strict Identity Survive?\nThe Bhedâbheda (Difference and Non-difference) of Nimbārka\nMadhva’s Concept of Divine Personality and Personalism\n“The Deepest Insoluble Embarrassment of Abstract Monism”: Śaṅkara and Schelling on the Origin of the Finite World of Appearance\nTheology in Poetry: Divinity, Humanity, and the Natural World in Veṅkaṭanātha’s Haṃsasandeśa\nAesthetic Experience as a Mediator Between Personal and Impersonal Transcendence\nHow Can Christian Theology and Hinduist Theology have Resonance?\nBlurry Vision as Transcendence: Lessons from Non-dual Śaivism\nThe Divine Gift according to Rāmānuja, Sudarśanasūri and Veṅkaṭanātha\nContributors\nIndex