Sacred and Secular
Responses to Life in a Finite World
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2022
190 pages
978-1-4384-8661-1 (ISBN)
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Explores distinctions between the sacred and the secular in a variety of religious traditions, and proposes ways in which their relationship can be mutually beneficial.
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Donald A. Crosby is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Colorado State University. He is the author of many books, including Partial Truths and Our Common Future: A Perspectival Theory of Truth and Value and More Than Discourse: Symbolic Expressions of Naturalistic Faith, both published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction
1. Finite Earthly Time
Undesirability of Timeless Life
Illusion of Ultimate Timeless Existence
Hägglund's Contrast of Religious and Secular Perspectives
Problems with the Idea of an Everlasting Afterlife
Conclusion
2. Fallible Human Knowledge
Fallibility of Human Claims to Truth
Unknowability of Future Beliefs
Dangers of Claims to Infallible Religious Beliefs
Inevitable and Desirable Religious Diversity
Conclusion
3. Science, Secularity, and Religion
Religion's Indebtedness to the Sciences
Limitations of the Sciences
Two Conceptions of Science
Conclusion
4. Ambiguities of Nature
Inanimate Nature
Nonhuman Animate Nature
The Human Side of Nature
Religious Affirmation of Nature
Conclusion
5. An Urgent Common Cause
A Monotheistic Response
A Buddhist Response
Scientific Responses
Prudential Responses
Moral Responses
Aesthetic Responses
Conclusion
6. Characterizing Religion
Tillich on the Narrower and Larger Concepts of Religion
Schilbrack's Analysis of Definitions of Religion
Religion and Ontology
Conclusion
7. Reconciling the Sacred with the Secular
Religious and Secular Views of Reality
Earlier Meanings of the Term Secular
Concept of the Secular State
Need for Religious and Secular Dialogue
The Virtue of Humility
Conclusion
8. Western Theism and Ontological Sacredness
From Radical Transcendence to Radical Immanence: Diana Bass's Journey of Faith
The Sacredness of Nature Without God: Chet Raymo's Religious Naturalism
Theism, Naturalism, and the Sacred
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
1. Finite Earthly Time
Undesirability of Timeless Life
Illusion of Ultimate Timeless Existence
Hägglund's Contrast of Religious and Secular Perspectives
Problems with the Idea of an Everlasting Afterlife
Conclusion
2. Fallible Human Knowledge
Fallibility of Human Claims to Truth
Unknowability of Future Beliefs
Dangers of Claims to Infallible Religious Beliefs
Inevitable and Desirable Religious Diversity
Conclusion
3. Science, Secularity, and Religion
Religion's Indebtedness to the Sciences
Limitations of the Sciences
Two Conceptions of Science
Conclusion
4. Ambiguities of Nature
Inanimate Nature
Nonhuman Animate Nature
The Human Side of Nature
Religious Affirmation of Nature
Conclusion
5. An Urgent Common Cause
A Monotheistic Response
A Buddhist Response
Scientific Responses
Prudential Responses
Moral Responses
Aesthetic Responses
Conclusion
6. Characterizing Religion
Tillich on the Narrower and Larger Concepts of Religion
Schilbrack's Analysis of Definitions of Religion
Religion and Ontology
Conclusion
7. Reconciling the Sacred with the Secular
Religious and Secular Views of Reality
Earlier Meanings of the Term Secular
Concept of the Secular State
Need for Religious and Secular Dialogue
The Virtue of Humility
Conclusion
8. Western Theism and Ontological Sacredness
From Radical Transcendence to Radical Immanence: Diana Bass's Journey of Faith
The Sacredness of Nature Without God: Chet Raymo's Religious Naturalism
Theism, Naturalism, and the Sacred
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index
