Recovering Religious Concepts
Closing Epistemic Divides
Published on 22. September 1999
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-333-74852-7 (ISBN)
Description
This volume argues that we need to recover concepts from the distortions of philosophy. The author aims to show the consequences for an understanding of religion of the epistemic divides which can be found in contemporary philosophy of religion, divides between belief and practice, the world and God, religious experience and religious contexts. By closing these divides, he says that religious significance is given its proper place.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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indexes
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 146 mm
Weight
554 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-74852-7 (9780333748527)
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Person
D. Z. PHILLIPS is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate School, California. and Rush Rhees Research Professor, University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The Concept of Prayer; Faith and Philosophical Enquiry; Death and Immortality; Moral Practices (with H.O. Mounce); Sense and Delusion (with Ilham Dilman); Athronyddu am Grefydd; Religion Without Explanation; Through the Darkening Glass; Dramu Gwenlyn Parry; Belief, Change and Forms of Life; R.S.Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God; Faith After Foundationalism; From Fantasy to Faith; Interventions in Ethics; Wittgenstein and Religion; Writers of Wales: J.R. Jones; Introducing Philosophy and The Challenge of Scepticism .
Content
Acknowledgements - Preface - Where We Are - At the Mercy of Method - Return of the Monstrous Illusion - Epistemic Practices - the Retreat from Reality - From World to God? - Searching for Mediation - The Friends of Cleanthes - A Case of Conceptual Poverty - Revelation and the Loss of Authority - Turning God into one Devil of a Problem - Miracles and Open-Door Epistemology - The Dislocated Soul and Immortality - The World and T - The Radiance of a False Eternity - In the Beginning was the Proposition - In the Beginning was the Choice - In the Beginning was the Dance - God and Concept-Formation - Where are the Gods Now? - Time for Judgement - Anglo-American Philosophical Culture - Religion and the Reception of Wittgenstein - Index of Names - Index of Subjects