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Reason and Religion

Author : Herman Philipse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107161733

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Combines philosophical investigations concerning the truth of religious convictions with empirical research on the origins and functions of religious beliefs. This book focuses on two core questions: (1) How probable is it that any particular god exists? (2) How should we account for the occurrence of religious beliefs in human societies?

Religion Within Reason

Author : Steven M. Cahn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780231543668

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In the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural deity. If supernaturalism is not reasonable, the argument goes, religion cannot be reasonable—or if supernaturalism is reasonable, religion must be as well. Are faith and reason, religion and science, doomed to a constant struggle for the heart of humanity? Steven M. Cahn believes that they are not, that even if God exists, religion may not be justified and that even if religion is justified, belief in God may not be. In Religion Within Reason, Cahn argues that the common understanding of the relationship between religion and supernaturalism is flawed and that while supernaturalism is not reasonable, religious commitment may well be. Writing not as a theist but as one who finds much to admire in a religious life, he examines faith and reason, miracles, heaven and hell, religious diversity, and the problem of evil, using a variety of examples taken from religious thought, literature, and popular culture. Lucidly written in a nonpolemical spirit, Religion Within Reason offers an exciting new approach to the reconciliation of science and religion.

Reason in Religion

Author : Walter Jaeschke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520065182

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"This book is the first to take account of the clarification in Hegel interpretation, and on these documents in particular, made possible by the entirely new critical edition. . . . Jaeschke is able to give fresh interpretations and new insights into long standing controversies in the field."--Robert R. Williams, Hiram College, Ohio

Science, Reason and Religion

Author : Derek Stanesby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134047741

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Science, Reason and Religion by Derek Stanesby Pdf

Philosophy matters. This is the message of this highly original inquiry into the relationship between science and religion. It is only when we examine the intellectual presuppositions on which science and religion are based, with regard to such fundamentals as truth, objectivity, and realism, that we perceive the link between these two enterprises which are essential to any characterization of man. The book offers a lucid and enlightening account of the main movements in the philosophy of science in the twentieth century, and then proceeds to demonstrate their consequences for philosophy of religion. After examining the wide and all-pervasive influence of positivism, and its offspring relativism, in both science and theology, he suggests that the attempt to provide an alternative, made by Karl Popper, offers the most satisfactory way forward in man’s twofold enquiry in terms of his relationship with God and with the world.

Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason

Author : Immanuel Kant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-11-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521599644

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Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason by Immanuel Kant Pdf

Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a key element of the system of philosophy which Kant introduced with his Critique of Pure Reason, and a work of major importance in the history of Western religious thought. It represents a great philosopher's attempt to spell out the form and content of a type of religion that would be grounded in moral reason and would meet the needs of ethical life. It includes sharply critical and boldly constructive discussions on topics not often treated by philosophers, including such traditional theological concepts as original sin and the salvation or 'justification' of a sinner, and the idea of the proper role of a church. This volume presents it and three short essays that illuminate it in new translations by Allen Wood and George di Giovanni, with an introduction by Robert Merrihew Adams that locates it in its historical and philosophical context.

God, Reason, and Religion

Author : Steven M. Cahn
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114557452

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God, Reason, and Religion by Steven M. Cahn Pdf

Don't buy just another philosophy of religion textbook, get the best. GOD, REASON, AND RELIGION walks you through unusual examples and new ideas on the way to explain the core issues of the philosophy of religion. Plus it's got the study tools you need and easy to follow explanations so you'll be ready for the test as well.

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134894994

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Postmodernism, Reason and Religion by Ernest Gellner Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Reason and Religion

Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110320725

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This book is avowedly written in what has been rather patronizingly called “the affable spirit of compromise or conciliation” between science and religion. Its key thesis is that these two enterprises can—and should be—seen as complementary in addressing different albeit interrelated questions: on the one side the nature of the natural world and our place in it, and on the other how we should proceed and act so as to capitalize on the opportunities that our place in the world affords to us for shaping our lives in a meaningful and satisfying way. How the world works is the crux of the one enterprise and how we are to live is that of the other.

Reason Within the Bounds of Religion

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0802816045

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Reason Within the Bounds of Religion by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

Expanding on his 1976 study of the bearing of Christian faith on the practice of scholarship, Wolterstorff has added a substantial new section on the role of faith in the decisions scholars make about their choice of subject matter.

Faith and Reason

Author : Brian Besong,Jonathan Fuqua
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781642290738

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Too smart to believe in God? The twelve philosophers in this book are too smart not to, and their finely honed reasoning skills and advanced educations are on display as they explain their reasons for believing in Christianity and entering the Roman Catholic Church. Among the twelve converts are well-known professors and writers including Peter Kreeft, Edward Feser, J. Budziszewski, Candace Vogler, and Robert Koons. Each story is unique; yet each one details the various perceptible ways God drew these lovers of wisdom to himself and to the Church. In every case, reason played a primary role. It had to, because being a Catholic philosopher is no easy task when the majority of one's colleagues thinks that religious faith is irrational. Although the reasonableness of the Catholic faith captured the attention of these philosophers and cleared a space into which the seed of supernatural faith could be planted, in each of these essays the attentive reader will find a fully human story. The contributions are not merely collections of arguments; they are stories of grace.

Religion and Rationality

Author : Jürgen Habermas
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745694412

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Religion and Rationality by Jürgen Habermas Pdf

This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a range of important figures, including Benjamin, Heidegger, Johann Baptist Metz and Gershom Scholem. In a new introduction written especially for this volume, Eduardo Mendieta places Habermas' engagement with religion in the context of his work as a whole. Mendieta also discusses Habermas' writings in relation to Jewish Messianism and the Frankfurt School, showing how the essays in Religion and Rationality, one of which is translated into English for the first time, foreground an important, yet often neglected, dimension of critical theory. The volume concludes with an original extended interview, also in English for the first time, in which Habermas develops his current views on religion in modern society. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in theology, religious studies and philosophy, as well as to all those already familiar with Habermas' work.

Faith and Reason

Author : Richard Swinburne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191536281

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Faith and Reason by Richard Swinburne Pdf

Richard Swinburne presents a new edition of the final volume of his acclaimed trilogy on philosophical theology. Faith and Reason is a self-standing examination of the implications for religious faith of Swinburne's famous arguments about the coherence of theism and the existence of God. By practising a particular religion, a person seeks to achieve some or all of three goals - that he worships and obeys God, gains salvation for himself, and helps others to attain their salvation. But not all religions commend worship, and different religions have different conceptions of salvation. Faced with these differences, Richard Swinburne argues that we should practice that religion which has the best goals and is more probably true than the creeds of other religions. He proposes criteria by which to determine the probabilities of different religious creeds, and he argues that, while requiring total commitment, faith does not demand fully convinced belief. While maintaining the same structure and conclusions as the original classic, this second edition has been substantially rewritten, both in order to relate its ideas more closely to those of classical theologians and philosophers and to respond to more recent views. In particular he discusses, and ultimately rejects, the view of Alvin Plantinga that the 'warrant' of a belief depends on the process which produced it, and John Hick's contention that all religions offer valid paths to salvation.

Reason, Religion, and Natural Law

Author : Jonathan A. Jacobs
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199995929

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Reason, Religion, and Natural Law by Jonathan A. Jacobs Pdf

This edited volume examines the realizations between theological considerations and natural law theorizing, from Plato to Spinoza. Theological considerations have long had a pronounced role in Catholic natural law theories, but have not been as thoroughly examined from a wider perspective. The contributors to this volume take a more inclusive view of the relation between conceptions of natural law and theistic claims and principles. They do not jointly defend one particular thematic claim, but articulate diverse ways in which natural law has both been understood and related to theistic claims. In addition to exploring Plato and the Stoics, the volume also looks at medieval Jewish thought, the thought of Aquinas, Scotus, and Ockham, and the ways in which Spinoza's thought includes resonances of earlier views and intimations of later developments. Taken as a whole, these essays enlarge the scope of the discussion of natural law through study of how the naturalness of natural law has often been related to theses about the divine. The latter are often crucial elements of natural law theorizing, having an integral role in accounting for the metaethical status and ethical bindingness of natural law. At the same time, the question of the relation between natural law and God-and the relation between natural law and divine command-has been addressed in a multiplicity of ways by key figures throughout the history of natural law theorizing, and these essays accord them the explanatory significance they deserve.

Reason and Religion

Author : Rem B. Edwards
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781725237575

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This book covers a variety of approaches to the main issues usually covered by philosophy of religion textbooks, such as the meaning of "religion," six ways of relating theology to philosophy, naturalism versus supernaturalism and their respective difficulties, an explanation and defense of process theism or panentheism, God's attributes, critiques and defenses of the ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments, religious experience including pluralistic and monistic mysticism, verification after death, and the future of reason and religion. In dealing with the arguments for the existence of God, theism wins. Though published some decades ago, there is very little in this book that the author would change today.

Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza

Author : Carlos Fraenkel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521194570

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Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza by Carlos Fraenkel Pdf

This groundbreaking account of the concept of a philosophical religion traces its history from antiquity to the Enlightenment.