
Reason and the Radical Crisis of Faith
Shabbir Akhtar(Author)
Peter Lang Verlag
Will be published approx. on 31. December 1987
Book
Hardback
X, 281 pages
978-0-8204-0451-6 (ISBN)
Description
Is belief in the Christian God intellectually defensible? Is it even morally necessary? In this book, Dr. Shabbir Akhtar, himself a Muslim, examines and rejects one fideist and two reductionist defences of the rationality of Christian conviction in modern industrial society. He identifies another defensive position - «theological revisionism» - which has recently gained popularity with secularized Christian thinkers. Rejecting this as merely a conservative version of reductionism, he emphasizes the need for reviving the tradition of natural theology and, in doing so, a religious vision of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
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Weight
450 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8204-0451-6 (9780820404516)
Schweitzer Classification
Content
Contents: Faith and reason - Fideism - The Christian tradition - Reductionism - Revisionism - Natural Theology - Presupposes some familiarity with philosophical reasoning - Philosophy of the Christian faith in the context of related religious rivals: Judaism and Islam.