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Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
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Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has grown up around these works-by Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens, and others-but many have complained not just of their theological illiteracy but also of their tendency to conflate religious belief with fundamentalism. They have contributed to a public atmosphere of anti-pluralist hostility to the expression of "faith positions." The atmosphere in Britain of aggressive secularism contrasts sharply with a public culture in the USA of religious conservatism that is suspicious of secular humanism. Here, a series of philosophers reflect, in an exploratory and confessional spirit, upon the status and sources of their religion or other spiritual sympathies-this may come in the form of a commitment to faith, an openness to religion, or another experience of transcendence. The authors get down to the essentials of religious agnosticism, the limits of secular humanism, the idea of conversion, the nature of despair, and the possibility of moral objectivity.
Table of Contents
Introduction (MM)
Peter Lipton, Science and Religion: The Immersion Solution
Stephen R L Clark, What has Plotinus' One to do with God?
Nicholas Lash, Thinking, Attending, Praying
David E. Cooper, Mystery, World and Religion
Daphne Hampson, Searching for God?
Janet Martin Soskice, Love and Reason
Francis X. Clooney, SJ, Beyond my God, with God's Blessing
Morny Joy, In Search of Wisdom
Anthony Kenny, Agnosticism and Atheism
Clare Carlisle, Ideals without Idealism
James P Mackey, The God of the Prophet Jesus of Nazareth
Michael McGhee, Humanism and Spirituality: or How to be a Good Atheist
Pamela Sue Anderson, A Turn to Spiritual Virtues in Philosophy of Religion: 'The Thoughtful Love of Life'
Richard Norman, Secularism and Shared Values
Anthony O'Hear, Religion in Public Life
Gordon Graham, Religion and theology
Simon Oliver, Wisdom and Belief in Theology and Philosophy
Harriet A Harris, Provocation
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2009 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9781847065483 |
| Imprint | Continuum |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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