God talk

Before looking at the problem of the knowledge of God and ourselves I feel it is important to have a deeper understanding of Brahman the Unknowable and what Hindu theologians say about it.   This will be done over a few days.   After this we will look at Karl Barth’s view about the Hiddenness of   God and then how he is revealed.   We can then compare and contrast the systems to this point.   I have to be careful to keep within these parameters because Hinduism is Hinduism and Christianity is Christianity.   I have no intentions of mixing categories.   For me this would be mythologizing and then I do no service to Christianity or to Hinduism.    This whole enterprise is; How far can we go in an honest discussion about God? I despair of some liberal theologies that push the boundaries in the name of peace.   Sometimes I think this annoys   other cultures up because they want their own religion to be   properly looked at and not to try to change categories and blending them to such an

There is a relationship between God and creation.   These are questions the Hindu philosophers battled with and the same type of questions were raised.   I don’t have enough years left to study Hinduism at great depth, but it is good that Swami Nikhilanda wrote about the conception of God in Hinduism.   So, the Unknowability of God is a central plank in the description of Brahman… These Hindu Scholars and St Paul ask the same questions at times.   Certain questions are not being raised at the moment such as the soul and the different forms of soteriology in these two systems.   I have only raised the question of ‘God’.   Later however, when we look at the atman and the physical aspects of the universe it is seen in negative terms.   This goes in an opposite direction   to the Genesis chapter 1 point of view; that when the material days were done “God said it was good” Yet the Hindus have raised as important question about epistemology as Calvin said in Institutes 1; “The kn