Transcendence : Critical Realism and God

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Contributor:

Collier, Andrew, 1944-2014.

Porpora, Douglas V.

Series:

Critical Realism: Interventions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God--Proof, Empirical.

God.

Philosophical theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world. Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief b

Contents:

Cover; Transcendence: Critical realism and God; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 What do we mean by God?; 3 Realism, relativism and reason in religious belief; 4 Judgemental rationality and Jesus; 5 Models of man: the admission of transcendence; 6 The Masters of Suspicion and secularisation; 7 Western mysticism and the limits of language; 8 A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue; 9 Natural theology, revealed theology and religious experlence; 10 On understanding religious experience: St Teresa as a challenge to social theory; 11 The human project

12 Emancipation, social and spiritualIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-42068-3

1-299-47839-5

1-134-30671-7

9780203420683

OCLC:

842265928