Reenchantment Without Supernaturalism

by Griffin, David Ray

• ISBN13: 9780801486579
• ISBN10: 0801486572
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

The process philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne has made many distinctive contributions to the philosophy of religion. David Ray Griffin now offers the first full-scale philosophy of religion written from this perspective, discussing such topics as the relationship between science and religion, the validity of religious experience, the nature and existence of God, religious pluralism, creation and evolution, and the problem of evil. Griffin's clear and comprehensive book also serves as a valuable introduction to process philosophy itself. In his vigorous defense of a worldview that is fully naturalistic and fully religious, Griffin shows not only how this position reconciles naturalism with freedom, genuine religious experience, and even life after death, but also how its naturalistic theism "reenchants" the world in the sense of providing cosmic support for moral values. Highly original and sometimes controversial, Griffin's book develops its stance in conversation with influential proponents of other philosophical positions, including William P. Alston, Jürgen Habermas, John Hick, Colin McGinn, Alvin Plantinga, Hilary Putnam, Willard Quine, Ninian Smart, Jeffrey Stout, and Bernard Williams.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Abbreviations	x
Introduction: A Process Philosophy of Religion	1	(19)
Religion, Science, and Naturalism	20	(32)
Perception and Religious Experience	52	(42)
Panexperientialism, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Relation	94	(35)
Naturalistic, Dipolar Theism	129	(40)
Natural Theology Based on Naturalistic Theism	169	(35)
Evolution, Evil, and Eschatology	204	(43)
The Two Ultimates and the Religions	247	(38)
Religion, Morality, and Civilization	285	(35)
Religious Language and Truth	320	(32)
Religious Knowledge and Common Sense	352	(41)
References	393	(24)
Index	417