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Frames of Mind - A Public Philosophy for Religion & Cultures

By Harold Turner

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Subject
New Zealand / General
ISBN
9780958201230

About this book

Before we can solve our mounting social problems in Western society we must examine our response to the three basic questions found in all cultures and religions:
¨ What is reality made of?
¨ How does the universe relate spirit and matter?
¨ How can we know the truth about these things?

Inside the book's back cover is a foldout of diagrams of images of the options here examined that you will find helpful. These answer questions such as whether we are mere drops in the Ocean, lonely Pebbles on life's beach, or part of a large living Network of ongoing relationships.

Despite the 16th century scientific revolution we have continued the ancient Greek mistake of separating mind from matter, the spiritual from the physical.

But since the mid-19th century dramatically new relational ways of thinking about the universe have been opened up by pioneers like Faraday, Maxwell and Einstein. Others such a Buber, Macmurray and Polanyi in philosophy and Karl Barth in theology have done the same for our relationships to one another and to the transcendent realm.

This new relational 'frame of mind' ranging between atoms and God offers a soundly earthed modern philosophy. The fate of Western culture depends on our response to these new answers to the basic questions.

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