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Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
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Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Science and Religion: The Immersion Solution
- 2 What has Plotinus’ One to do with God?
- 3 Thinking, Attending, Praying
- 4 Mystery,World and Religion
- 5 Searching for God?
- 6 Love and Reason
- 7 Beyond My God, with God’s Blessing
- 8 In Search of Wisdom
- 9 Agnosticism and Atheism
- 10 Ideals without Idealism
- 11 The God of the Prophet Jesus of Nazareth
- 12 Humanism and Spirituality: or How to be a Good Atheist
- 13 A Turn to Spiritual Virtues in Philosophy of Religion: ‘The Thoughtful Love of Life’
- 14 Secularism and Shared Values
- 15 Religion in Public Life
- 16 Religion and Theology
- 17 Wisdom and Belief in Theology and Philosophy
- 18 Provocation
- Index
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