New Models of Religious Understanding

New Models of Religious Understanding

by Ellis, Fiona

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"What does it mean to understand the world religiously? How is such understanding to be distinguished from scientific understanding? What does it have to do with religious practice, transfiguring love, and spiritual well-being? 'New models of religious understanding' investigates these questions to set a new and exciting agenda for philosophy of religion. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume cuts across the supposed divide between analytic and continental appro…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :New Models of Religious Understanding / edited by Fiona Ellis.

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"What does it mean to understand the world religiously? How is such understanding to be distinguished from scientific understanding? What does it have to do with religious practice, transfiguring love, and spiritual well-being? 'New models of religious understanding' investigates these questions to set a new and exciting agenda for philosophy of religion. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume cuts across the supposed divide between analytic and continental approaches to the subject and engages the interest of a broad range of philosophical and theological readers."-- Back cover.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2018
  • Edition:First edition

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xi, 244 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780198796732, 0198796730
  • oclc:ocn991672785
  • LC Classification:BL51
  • Dewey Decimal:210.1

Table of Contents

Introduction / Fiona Ellis -- Transcending science : humane models of religious understanding / John Cottingham -- Religious understanding, naturalism, and theory / Fiona Ellis -- Naturalism, involved philosophy, and the human predicament / Edward Kanterian -- Transfiguring love / David McPherson -- Habit, practice, grace : toward a philosophy of religious life / Clare Carlisle -- Aesthetic goods and the nature of religious understanding / Mark Wynn -- Religious knowledge versus religious understanding / Kyle Scott -- Modal structuralism and theism / Silvia Jonas -- Theology and the knowledge of persons / Eleonore Stump -- Religious understanding in a contemporary global context / Keith Ward -- Love and philosophy of religion : lessons from the Cambridge Platonists / Charles Taliaferro.

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