Faith After Foundationalism
Plantinga-Rorty-Lindbeck-Berger - Critiques And Alternatives
1st Edition
Published on 5. June 1995
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Paperback/Softback
343 pages
978-0-8133-2645-0 (ISBN)
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In a brilliant series of essays, the distinguished philosopher D. Z. Phillips explores the alternatives for faith after foundationalism. A significant exploration of post-foundationalist thought in its own right, Faith After Foundationalism is also an important evaluation and critique of the theological implications of the views of Alvin Plantinga, Richard Rorty, George Lindbeck, and Peter Berger.Phillips's own position is that one must resist the philosopher's tendency to turn religious mystery into epistemological mystery. To understand how religious concepts are formed is to understand that to speak of God as beyond mortal telling" is not to confess a failure of language. God's hiddenness is part of our concept of him,a reflection of the mystery of human life as it is lived. Faith After Foundationalism will be essential reading for philosophers of religion and theologians, as well as for students of contemporary epistemology.
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English
Place of publication
Oxford
United States
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Taylor & Francis Inc
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College/higher education
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Paperback (UK-trade)
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Weight
430 gr
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978-0-8133-2645-0 (9780813326450)
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D. Z. Phillips is professor of philosophy at the University of Wales, Swansea, and the Danforth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at the Claremont Graduate School. He is the author of many important books on philosophy of religion and ethics, including The Concept of Prayer, Death and Immortality, From Fantasy to Faith, Interventions in Ethics, and Wittgenstein and Religion.
Content
Preface -- Can There Be A Religious Epistemology? -- Foundationalism and Religion: a Philosophical Scandal -- The Reformed Challenge to Foundationalism -- Preliminary Criticism of the Reformed Challenge -- Basic Propositions: Reformed Epistemology and Wittgenstein's On Certainty -- Epistemology and Justification by Faith -- Religion and Epistemology -- A Reformed Epistemology? -- Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives -- Philosophy, Description and Religion -- Manners Without Grammar -- The Hermeneutic Option -- Optional Descriptions? -- The Hidden Values of Hermeneutics -- The Sociologising of Values -- Religion in the Marketplace -- Grammar and Theology -- Grammar and the Nature of Doctrine -- Grammar and Doctrinal Disagreement -- Grammar Without Foundations -- Grammarians and Guardians -- Part Four Religion and Concept-Formation -- Epistemological Mysteries -- A Place for Mystery -- Morality, Grace and Concept-Formation -- Religious Concepts: Misunderstanding and Lack of Understanding