The Predicament Of Belief
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Author | : James W. Walters |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725283603 |
Instead of suppressing doubts about religious claims, what if we engage them head-on? Imagine theologians who welcome the uncomfortable questions rather than immunizing their proposals from criticisms. What happens when discussions of the deepest issues—God and science, faith and doubt, suffering and evil, death and resurrection—are guided by the real-life challenges of believing and living in today’s world? The probing queries and constructive replies published here for the first time invite you into the living experience of doubt and faith, the spiritual quest of our age. They invite readers to consider not only what they believe, but also how they hold their beliefs . . . and what they do with them in everyday life.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2011-10-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 019969527X |
Does it make sense - can it make sense - for someone who appreciates the explanatory power of modern science to continue believing in a traditional religious account of the ultimate nature and purpose of our universe? This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied with the rigid dichotomies that dominate the contemporary debate. The extremists won't be interested - those who assume that science answers all the questions that matter, and those so certain of their religious faith that dialogue with science, philosophy, or other faith traditions seems unnecessary. But far more people today recognize that matters of faith are complex, that doubt is endemic to belief, and that dialogue is indispensable in our day. In eight probing chapters, the authors of The Predicament of Belief consider the most urgent reasons for doubting that religious claims - in particular, those embedded in the Christian tradition - are likely to be true. They develop a version of Christian faith that preserves the tradition's core insights but also gauges the varying degrees of certainty with which those insights can still be affirmed. Along the way, they address such questions as the ultimate origin of the universe, the existence of innocent suffering, the challenge of religious plurality, and how to understand the extraordinary claim that an ancient teacher rose from the dead. They end with a discussion of what their conclusions imply about the present state and future structure of churches and other communities in which Christian affirmations are made.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Belief and doubt |
ISBN | : 9780191731945 |
Does it make sense for someone who appreciates the explanatory power of modern science to continue believing in a traditional religious account of the ultimate nature and purpose of our universe? This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied with the rigid dichotomies that dominate the debate.
Author | : James W. Walters |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2020-09-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 172528362X |
Instead of suppressing doubts about religious claims, what if we engage them head-on? Imagine theologians who welcome the uncomfortable questions rather than immunizing their proposals from criticisms. What happens when discussions of the deepest issues—God and science, faith and doubt, suffering and evil, death and resurrection—are guided by the real-life challenges of believing and living in today’s world? The probing queries and constructive replies published here for the first time invite you into the living experience of doubt and faith, the spiritual quest of our age. They invite readers to consider not only what they believe, but also how they hold their beliefs . . . and what they do with them in everyday life.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-03 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1136640673 |
Intelligent Design vs. the New Atheists.
Author | : Assistant Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins James Walters |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990591702 |
Author | : Paton, H J |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1317852672 |
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2018-09-20 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1351355910 |
Religion and science are arguably the two most powerful social forces in the world today. But where religion and science were once held to be compatible, many people now perceive them to be in conflict. This unique book provides the best available introduction to the burning debates in this controversial field. Examining the defining questions and controversies, renowned expert Philip Clayton presents the arguments from both sides, asking readers to decide for themselves where they stand: • science or religion, or science and religion? • history and philosophy of science • the role of scientific and religious ethics – modifying genes, extending life, and experimenting with human subjects • religion and the environmental crisis • the future of science vs. the future of religion. Thoroughly updated throughout, this second edition explores religious traditions from around the world and provides insights from across the sciences, making this book essential reading for all those wishing to come to their own understanding of some of the most important debates of our day.
Author | : Ethan H. Shagan |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 2019-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691184941 |
An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the West This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses not on what people believed, which is the normal concern of Reformation history, but on the more fundamental question of what people took belief to be. Shagan shows how religious belief enjoyed a special prestige in medieval Europe, one that set it apart from judgment, opinion, and the evidence of the senses. But with the outbreak of the Protestant Reformation, the question of just what kind of knowledge religious belief was—and how it related to more mundane ways of knowing—was forced into the open. As the warring churches fought over the answer, each claimed belief as their exclusive possession, insisting that their rivals were unbelievers. Shagan challenges the common notion that modern belief was a gift of the Reformation, showing how it was as much a reaction against Luther and Calvin as it was against the Council of Trent. He describes how dissidents on both sides came to regard religious belief as something that needed to be justified by individual judgment, evidence, and argument. Brilliantly illuminating, The Birth of Modern Belief demonstrates how belief came to occupy such an ambivalent place in the modern world, becoming the essential category by which we express our judgments about science, society, and the sacred, but at the expense of the unique status religion once enjoyed.
Author | : Philip Clayton |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780748607983 |
This text is part of the Edinburgh Studies in Constructive Theology series, which aims to provide a dialogue between the history of Western theological traditions and the contemporary interpretative context. Intended for those with no particular historical or theological training, it guides students through the core theological issues, searching out common ground by surveying the classic works of the theological tradition.