Interesting article! I'm reminded of the introduction to The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart. [0] It explains the central

Interesting article! I'm reminded of the introduction to The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss by David Bentley Hart. [0] It explains the central goal of the book—to provide a definition of God. Hart essentially argues that many of the discussions about religious beliefs (especially in the modern-era) aren't fruitful because of the imprecision of language. The publisher's blurb [1] can provide a better overview than I can, but the book definitely influenced my understanding of "the Divine" as it relates to the human condition in many different cultures. In a similar manner, this article examines the disconnect many people (even intellectuals) have when discussing high-level concepts. So often, we talk past each other and get frustrated that our viewpoint isn't even being heard. Perhaps, before we get too frustrated when engaging in sensitive discussions, we should make sure we're at least sitting at the same table (metaphorically speaking). [0] - https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17802922-the-experience-of-god https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/17802922-the-experien... [1] - "Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion—God—frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word “God” functions in the world’s great theistic faiths. Ranging broadly across Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Vedantic and Bhaktic Hinduism, Sikhism, and Buddhism, Hart explores how these great intellectual traditions treat humanity’s knowledge of the divine mysteries. Constructing his argument around three principal metaphysical “moments”—being, consciousness, and bliss—the author demonstrates an essential continuity between our fundamental experience of reality and the ultimate reality to which that experience inevitably points. Thoroughly dismissing such blatant misconceptions as the deists' concept of God, as well as the fundamentalist view of the Bible as an objective historical record, Hart provides a welcome antidote to simplistic manifestoes. In doing so, he plumbs the depths of humanity’s experience of the world as powerful evidence for the reality of God and captures the beauty and poetry of traditional reflection upon the divine."