1)
Because it makes living in a
community easier, and smoother, and fosters
good relations between others that could be of benefit to either myself or the
community at large.
, That Rylaarsdam's criticism is in part, at least, based on a misunderstanding of Buber's position and a difference in Rylaarsdam's own a priori assumptions is shown by his further statements that «
Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present ch
Because of his individual and personal emphasis the notion of an objective revelation of God in nature and history involving the whole
community of Israel in the real event of the Exodus does not fit
well for him,» that Buber's view of revelation is «essentially mystical and nonhistorical,» and that «the realistic disclosure of Yahweh as the Lord of nature and of history recedes into the background
because of an overconcern with the experience of personal relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present ch
because of an overconcern with the experience of personal
relation» — criticisms which are all far wide of the mark, as is shown by the present chapter.)
Western writing on Eastern religion has had, in the course of the last hundred years,
because of its substance, an influence on the development of those religions themselves that certainly deserves careful historical investigation; on the whole,
because of the form in which it has mostly been cast, it has in addition been causing resentment and is beginning to elicit protest.22 Certainly anyone for whom comparative religion studies are something that might or should serve to promote mutual understanding and
good relations between religious
communities can not but be concerned at this contrary effect.