Understanding Faith
Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
1st Edition
Published on 5. July 2011
277 pages
978-1-84540-286-0 (ISBN)
Description
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of 'scientists' compared with the 'dogmatism' of 'believers'; the difficulty of reading 'scripture' outside 'the community of faith' that has selected and elaborated it; the problems of moral realism (and the problem with abandoning it); why Darwinian and neo-Darwinian Theory has been unpopular with some believers, and what if anything can still be affirmed from it; what can be learnt from modern biology (especially) about our relations with other creatures; the nature of God; the metaphor of 'waking up' as applied to our hopes of heaven; the varieties of possible world orders founded on differing religious schemata (including some atheistical ones); and the place of religion in the State. He concludes, appropriately, with some remarks about the End.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
05/2009
Imprint Academic
€42.23
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Preface
- Understanding Faith
- Devils and Mental Microbes
- Projects, Conjectures, Refutations
- Understanding Scripture
- The Abolition of Man
- Can Animals be our Friends?
- What's Wrong with Darwinian Evolution?
- Waking Up
- What is God?
- World Orders, World Religions
- More Local Problems
- Considering the End
- Back Matter
- Also Available
