New models of religious understanding
by Ellis, Fiona
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 approa…
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- 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.
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- Publication Date:2018.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:Oxford, United Kingdom
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2018.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780192516824, 0192516825, 9780191837968, 0191837962
- oclc:on1015215235
- LC Classification:BL51
- Dewey Decimal:210.3
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Transcending science: humane models of religious understanding -- Religious understanding, naturalism, and theory -- Naturalism, involved philosophy, and the human predicament -- Transfiguring love -- Habit, practice, grace: toward a philosophy of religious life -- Aesthetic goods and the nature of religious understanding -- Religious knowledge versus religious understanding -- Modal structuralism and theism -- Theology and the knowledge of persons -- Religious understanding in a contemporary global context -- Love and philosophy of religion: lessons from the Cambridge platonists -- Bibliography -- Index.
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