ABSTRACT

In this chapter, the authors provide their responses to philosopher and other authors to read the Position Statements. The philosopher and other authors are Jerome Gellman, Trichur S. Rukmani, Freya Mathews and Bede Benjamin Bidlack. Many Christians share the goal that Gellman identifies as seeking union with God. Rukmani believes that monism is more reasonable than theism and pluralism. On pluralism, Rukmani writes: "If there is only one God, how come there are so many different ways in which he/she is described and why should each of the religions claim superiority for itself?" Mathews seeks to give substantial moral content to panpsychism. Daoism readily addresses ways in which persons can ignore the Dao or develop imperfections, delusions and the like. The topic of the meaning of life is making a comeback in many philosophical circles after a period of neglect from analytically trained philosophers who were suspicious about whether the very concept of 'the meaning of life' was meaningful.