Repairing Eden

by Mcleod-harrison, Mark S.

• ISBN13: 9780773529366
• ISBN10: 0773529365
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-30
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

How do Christians keep from losing their faith when they discover that other faiths are as justified as theirs? Mark McLeod-Harrison draws from his training in analytic philosophy and his practice of Christian mysticism to provide a compelling analysis and unique solution to the problem religious diversity poses for Christians who want to take their faith as the one true description of their relationship to ultimate reality. In Repairing Eden, McLeod-Harrison describes this dilemma as an existential problem internal to the Christian faith and the witness of the Scripture about self-worshiping idolatry. He analyzes both Christian humility and Christian mysticism as a joint path toward a kind of metaphysical certainty - the mystic path, the path of bearing one's own cross, can provide a means of more deeply knowing God. Repairing Eden weaves theology, philosophy, and pastoral concerns into a spiritual-philosophical solution to a deeply important challenge to Christian faith.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Preface	xiii
Introduction	xv
Reality and Religion: Identifying the Existential Problem of Religious Diversity	3	(15)
An Epistemic Basis of Religious Diversity	18	(27)
Idolatry and the Testing of One's Faith	45	(25)
An Analysis of Humility	70	(16)
The Humility of Jesus and the Christian Tradition	86	(21)
Humility, Mysticism, and the Existential Problem of Religious Diversity	107	(22)
Appendix: The Challenge of Religious Diversity, Again?	129	(2)
Notes	131	(8)
Bibliography	139	(4)
Index	143