Philosophers and God
At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason
(Sprache: Englisch)
A series of philosophers reflect upon the status and sources of their religion and spiritual sympathies. They rise above the rancour of recent debates fuelled by secular critics such as Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens to reclaim the essential capacity of...
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A series of philosophers reflect upon the status and sources of their religion and spiritual sympathies. They rise above the rancour of recent debates fuelled by secular critics such as Dawkins, Dennett and Hitchens to reclaim the essential capacity of religion to touch the hearts and minds of a diverse global audience.
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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Philosophers and God “
Preface (JC)Introduction (MM)Peter Lipton, Science and Religion: The Immersion SolutionStephen R L Clark, What has Plotinus' One to do with God?Nicholas Lash, Thinking, Attending, PrayingDavid E. Cooper, Mystery, World and ReligionDaphne Hampson, Searching for God?Janet Martin Soskice, Love and ReasonFrancis X. Clooney, SJ, Beyond my God, with God's BlessingMorny Joy, In Search of WisdomAnthony Kenny, Agnosticism and AtheismClare Carlisle, Ideals without IdealismJames P Mackey, The God of the Prophet Jesus of NazarethMichael McGhee, Humanism and Spirituality: or How to be a Good AtheistPamela Sue Anderson, A Turn to Spiritual Virtues in Philosophy of Religion: 'The Thoughtful Love of Life'Richard Norman, Secularism and Shared ValuesAnthony O'Hear, Religion in Public LifeGordon Graham, Religion and theologySimon Oliver, Wisdom and Belief in Theology and PhilosophyHarriet A Harris, Provocation
Autoren-Porträt von John Cornwell
John Cornwell is a journalist and author with a lifelong interest in literature, religion, and science. His books have included A Thief in the Night, Hitler's Pope, and Seminary Boy. In 1984 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and currently directs the Science and Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge. Michael McGhee is Senior Fellow in Philosophy at The University of Liverpool. He is the author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy and Spiritual Practice (CUP, 2000) and is also the Joint Editor of Contemporary Buddhism.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John Cornwell
- 2009, 288 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 21,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: John Cornwell, Michael McGhee
- Verlag: Continuum
- ISBN-10: 1847065481
- ISBN-13: 9781847065483
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.06.2009
Sprache:
Englisch
Rezension zu „Philosophers and God “
."..the authors seek to argue rigorously while taking account of personal experience...Two essays in Cornwell and McGhee should not be missed: Anthony Kenny's careful delineation of his own agnostic position in contrast with the atheism of Richard Dawkins and Richard Norman's analysis of the way Christianity has shaped Western values, usually in response to other traditions such as those of Greece and Rome." England on Sunday, 2009--Sanford Lakoff
Pressezitat
Reviewed in Good Book Guide, 1 July 2009
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