Philosophers and God At the Frontiers of Faith and Reason

by Cornwell, John; McGhee, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781847065483
• ISBN10: 1847065481
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-25
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Public Interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has grown up around these works - Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens - complaining not just about their theological illiteracy but also about their tendency to conflate religious belief with fundamentalism and their contribution to a public atmosphere of anti-pluralist hostility to the expression of 'faith positions'.

Author Biography

John Cornwell has since 1990 been director of the Science and Human Dimension Project, a Cambridge-based public understanding of science programme. He is an Affiliated Research Scholar in the department of History and Philosophy of Science, and has published and broadcast widely on science, religion and society. He is the author of Power to Harm, Hitler's Scientists, and Darwin's Angel, and has edited three volumes of essays on philosophy of science: Nature's Imagination, Consciousness and Human Identity, and Explanations. Michael Mcghee is Senior Fellow in Philosophy at The University of Liverpool. He is the author of Transformations of Mind: Philosophy and Spiritual Practice (CUP, 2000) and is also the Joint Editor of Contemporary Buddhism.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Science and Religion: The Immersion Solution	p. 1
What has Plotinus' One to do with God	p. 21
Thinking, Attending, Praying	p. 39
Mystery, World and Religion	p. 51
Searching for God?	p. 63
Love and Reason	p. 77
Beyond My God, with God's Blessing	p. 87
In Search of Wisdom	p. 97
Agnosticism and Atheism	p. 117
Ideals without Idealism	p. 125
The God of the Prophet Jesus of Nazareth	p. 137
Humanism and Spirituality: or How to be a Good Atheist	p. 153
A Turn to Spiritual Virtues in Philosophy of Religion: 'The Thoughtful Love of Life'	p. 167
Secularism and Shared Values	p. 187
Religion in Public Life	p. 203
Religion and Theology	p. 217
Wisdom and Belief in Theology and Philosophy	p. 231
Provocation	p. 245
Index	p. 253
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