Beyond Legitimation
Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge
Published on 26. October 1994
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XV, 243 pages
978-0-333-61490-7 (ISBN)
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The early essays in this volume proceed on the assumption that a compatibility system can be fashioned that will not only bring religious knowledge claims into harmony with scientific claims but will also show there to be a fundamental similarity of method in religious and scientific thinking. They are not, however, unambiguously successful. Consequently Professor Wiebe sets out in the succeeding essays to seek an understanding of the religion/science relationship that does not assume they must be compatible. That examination, in the final analysis, reveals a fundamental contradiction in the compatibility system building programme which more than suggests that religious belief (knowledge) is beyond legitimation.
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1994 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
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XV, 243 p.
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Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
476 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-61490-7 (9780333614907)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-23668-8
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Content
Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: COMPATIBILITY SYSTEMS AND THE LEGITIMATION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF - Comprehensively Critical Rationalism and Commitment - Is Religious Belief Problematic? - The Cognitive Status of Religious Belief - Explanation and Theological Method - Science and Religion: Is Compatability Possible? - PART 2: BEYOND LEGITIMATION: COMPATIBILITY SYSTEMS RECONSIDERED - Being Faithful and Being Reasonable as Mutually Exclusive - Religion Transcending Science Transcending Religion - Is Science Really an Implicit Religion? - Religion, Science, and the Transformation of 'Knowledge' - Has Philosophy of Religion a Place in the Agenda of Theology? - PART 3: ON THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF - Philosophical Reflections on Twentieth Century Mennonite Thought - Comprehensiveness as the Integrity of Anglican Theology - The Ambiguous Revolution: Kant on the Nature of Faith - The Centripetal Theology of The Great Code - An Unholy Alliance? The Creationists' Quest for Scientific Legitimation