Natural Religion And The Nature Of Religion
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Author | : Peter Byrne |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2013-05-02 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1135979774 |
This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can’t engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion without a knowledge of the philosophical history that has shaped that concept. This is discussed with reference to the notion of natural religion to illustrate certain aspects of deism and its legacy. Originally published in 1989.
Author | : Robert N. McCauley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2013-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0199341540 |
A comparison of the cognitive foundations of religion and science and an argument that religion is cognitively natural and that science is cognitively unnatural.
Author | : Donald A. Crosby |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791488195 |
The beauty, sublimity, and wonder of nature have been justly celebrated in all of the religious traditions of the world, but usually these traditions have focused on beings or powers presumed to lie behind nature, providing nature's ultimate explanation and meaning. In a radical departure, Donald A. Crosby makes an eloquent case for regarding nature itself as the focus of religion, conceived without God, gods, or animating spirits of any kind, and argues that nature is metaphysically ultimate. He explores the concept of nature, the place of humans in nature, the responsibilities of humans to one another and to their natural environments, and offers a religious vision that grants to nature the kind of reverence, awe, love, and devotion formerly reserved for God. Crosby also shares his personal journey from theistic faith to a religion of nature.
Author | : Daniel C. Dennett |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 2006-02-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 110121886X |
The New York Times bestseller – a “crystal-clear, constantly engaging” (Jared Diamond) exploration of the role that religious belief plays in our lives and our interactions For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, Breaking the Spell will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.
Author | : William Wollaston |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1725 |
Genre | : Ethics |
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Author | : J. P. F. Wynne |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2019-10-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107070481 |
Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.
Author | : Samuel von Pufendorf |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1698 |
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Author | : Catherine L. Albanese |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1991-09-24 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0226011461 |
Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history. Traces the connections between movements and individuals. Includes figures from popular culture such as the Hutchinson Family Singers and Davy Crockett as well as Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir.
Author | : Rodney Holder |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1000205789 |
This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources cannot be maintained, since what purports to be revelation cannot be accepted without qualification: rational argument is needed to infer both the existence of God from nature and the particular truth claims of the Christian faith from the Bible. Hence the distinction between ‘bare natural theology’ and ‘ramified natural theology.’ The book begins with bare natural theology as background to its main focus on ramified natural theology. Bayesian confirmation theory is utilised to evaluate competing hypotheses in both cases, in a similar manner to that by which competing hypotheses in science can be evaluated on the basis of empirical data. In this way a case is built up for the rationality of a Christian theist worldview. Addressing issues of science, theology and revelation in a new framework, this book will be of keen interest to scholars working in Religion and Science, Natural Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, and Science and Culture.
Author | : Seyyed Hossein Nasr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1996-09-26 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0195356160 |
The current ecological crisis is a matter of urgent global concern, with solutions being sought on many fronts. In this book, Seyyed Hossein Nasr argues that the devastation of our world has been exacerbated, if not actually caused, by the reductionist view of nature that has been advanced by modern secular science. What is needed, he believes, is the recovery of the truth to which the great, enduring religions all attest; namely that nature is sacred. Nasr traces the historical process through which Western civilization moved away from the idea of nature as sacred and embraced a world view which sees humans as alienated from nature and nature itself as a machine to be dominated and manipulated by humans. His goal is to negate the totalitarian claims of modern science and to re-open the way to the religious view of the order of nature, developed over centuries in the cosmologies and sacred sciences of the great traditions. Each tradition, Nasr shows, has a wealth of knowledge and experience concerning the order of nature. The resuscitation of this knowledge, he argues, would allow religions all over the globe to enrich each other and cooperate to heal the wounds inflicted upon the Earth.