Circling the Elephant (Robert Wright & John Thatamanil)

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4.7 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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John’s new book, Circling the Elephant: A Comparative Theology of Religious Diversity ... John’s early religious sensibility ... The Advaita Vedanta tradition in Hinduism ... Grappling with the human predicament ... Approaches to ultimate reality ... John’s brush with non-dualistic experience ... Why John doesn’t consider himself a perennialist ... Touching the infinite elephant ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.5	Hi, John.
0:09.9	Hi, Bob.
0:11.0	How you doing?
0:12.2	Good.
0:12.8	Good to be with you again.
0:15.1	Good to be with you.
0:16.2	Let me introduce us.
0:17.9	I am Robert Wright.
0:19.2	This is The Right show, available on both streaming video and via
0:22.5	audio podcast. You're John Thetaminal, professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary,
0:29.8	and I think behind you what we see, it could be the library at union. It could be an image of the library at union.
0:39.5	Now, if you tell me it's the actual library union, I am going to say that we should dial 911 about that guy over your right shoulder because he hasn't moved.
0:47.2	Right.
0:47.7	Okay?
0:48.2	He never does.
0:50.1	Yeah.
0:51.1	Well, maybe he's meditating.
0:53.5	Yes.
0:54.0	Which has some relevance to what we're going to talk about.
0:59.0	You are the author of the eminent divine God creation and the human predicament. That's not the
1:03.9	book we're going to talk about, though. We're going to talk about your book, Circling the Elephant,
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