Faith After Foundationalism: Plantinga-rorty-lindbeck-berger-- Critiques And Alternatives

by Phillips,D. Z.

• ISBN13: 9780813326450
• ISBN10: 0813326451
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1995-06-05
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

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 Foundationalismis 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" isnotto confess a failure of language. God's hiddenness is part of our concept of hima reflection of the mystery of human life as it is lived.Faith After Foundationalismwill be essential reading for philosophers of religion and theologians, as well as for students of contemporary epistemology.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Foundationalism and Religion: a Philosophical Scandal	p. 3
The Reformed Challenge to Foundationalism	p. 14
Preliminary Criticism of the Reformed Challenge	p. 24
Basic Propositions: Reformed Epistemology and Wittgenstein's on Certainty	p. 38
Epistemology and Justification by Faith	p. 54
Religion and Epistemology	p. 75
A Reformed Epistemology?	p. 94
Religious and Non-Religious Perspectives	p. 115
Philosophy, Description and Religion	p. 123
The Hermeneutic Option	p. 131
Optional Descriptions?	p. 148
The Hidden Values of Hermeneutics	p. 154
The Sociologising of Values	p. 167
Religion in the Marketplace	p. 183
Grammar and the Nature of Doctrine	p. 195
Grammar and Doctrinal Disagreement	p. 213
Grammar without Foundations	p. 225
Grammarians and Guardians	p. 238
Epistemological Mysteries	p. 255
A Place for Mystery	p. 273
Morality, Grace and Concept-Formation	p. 291
Religious Concepts: Misunderstanding and Lack of Understanding	p. 304
Bibliography	p. 334
Index	p. 339
About the Book and Author	p. 343
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