The Divine Matrix: Creativity as Link Between East and West

SPECIFICATION: Publisher :  Motilal Banarsidas Publishing House By      :  Joseph A. BrackenLanguage : EnglishPages : 190 pagesWeight :  300 Gram Size : ‎ 20 x 3 x 25 cmISBN-10 : 8120814169ISBN-13 : 978-8120814165 DESCRIPTION: The Divine Matrix represents a bold scholarly attempt to provide a framework for discussing these and other questions that will keep the interreligious dialogue project from grinding to a halt. In this book, philosopher and theologian Joseph Bracken first locates the Infinite as transcendent source and goal of human activity as the notion common to virtually all the major world religions. He suggests that the Infinite is prototypically experienced not as an entity but as an ongoing activity, the principle of activity for all beings. This idea is consistent with the notion of eternal and continuous motion is Aristotle, with the "act o being" (actus essendi) in the theology of Thomas Aquinas and Meister Ecker and with the ground of being of Shelling and Heidegger,