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Tradition and authenticity in the search for ecumenic wisdom

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Our emerging world system is bringing the great traditions and cultures it has spawned into ever more intimate and dangerous contact. Although many of the same processes of change and development are unfolding in different parts of the world, distinctive traditions seem to make conflicting, perhaps irreconcilable, truth claims. The material conquest of the world, through its planetary-scale institutions and through a scientific-universalistic concept of truth, tends to relativize the claims of all cultures. In Tradition and Authenticity in the Search for Ecumenic Wisdom, Thomas Langan argues that we must struggle toward a unity of discourse respectful of genuine experiences of varying civilizations if we are to live peacefully on one planet. Langan begins by raising the question of whether this search for an ecumenic wisdom is a valid project.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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140 LAN t

Publisher

Columbia : Univ. of Missoury Press., 1992

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ix,239p.; 24 cm.

Language

English

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0-8262-0800-2

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140

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SPECIFIC PHILOSOPHY

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