Infinite paths to infinite reality : Sri Ramakrishna and cross-cultural philosophy of religion / Ayon Maharaj.

Includes bibliographical references (315-333) and index.

Sri Ramakrishna's philosophy of vijñāna vedanta -- A cross-cultural inquiry into divine infinitude : Sri Ramakrishna, paraconsistency, and the overcoming of conceptual idolatry -- "All faiths are paths" : a reconstruction and defense of Sri Ramakrishna's vijñāna-based model of religious pluralism -- John Hick's Vedantic road not taken? : Hick's evolving views on religious pluralism in the light of Sri Ramakrishna -- Beyond perennialism and constructivism : Sri Ramakrishna's manifestationist model of mystical experience -- A cross-cultural defense of the epistemic value of mystical experience : Sri Ramakrishna, self-authentication, and the argument from experience -- Sri Ramakrishna's multidimensional response to the problem of evil : skeptical theism, saint-making theodicy, and the panentheistic standpoint of vijñāna -- A cross-cultural approach to the problem of evil : Sri Ramakrishna, the Rowe-Alston debate, and Hick's soul-making theodicy.

"This pioneering study examines the philosophy of the nineteenth-century Indian mystic Sri Ramakrishna and brings him into dialogue with recent Western thinkers. Sri Ramakrishna's expansive conception of God as the impersonal-personal Infinite Reality, Maharaj argues, opens up an entirely new paradigm for addressing central issues in the philosophy of religion"--