The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human ValueCambridge University Press, 15 sep 2005 - 186 pagina's The Spiritual Dimension offers a new model for the philosophy of religion, bringing together emotional and intellectual aspects of our human experience, and embracing practical as well as theoretical concerns. It shows how a religious worldview is best understood not as an isolated set of doctrines, but as intimately related to spiritual praxis and to the search for self-understanding and moral growth. It argues that the religious quest requires a certain emotional openness, but can be pursued without sacrificing our philosophical integrity. Touching on many important debates in contemporary philosophy and theology, but accessible to general readers, The Spiritual Dimension covers a range of central topics in the philosophy of religion, including scientific cosmology and the problem of evil; ethical theory and the objectivity of goodness; psychoanalytic thought, self-discovery and virtue; the multi-layered nature of religious discourse; and the relation between faith and evidence. |
Inhoudsopgave
Religion and spirituality from praxis to belief | 1 |
2 Why praxis must come first | 5 |
3 The heart has its reasons | 8 |
4 Trust and the corrections of reason | 13 |
Religion and science theodicy in an imperfect universe | 18 |
2 Are religious claims explanatory hypotheses? | 21 |
3 The problem of evil and the nature of matter | 26 |
4 The dust of the earth | 29 |
4 The importance of layering | 88 |
5 Meaning and justification | 98 |
Religion and the Enlightenment modernist and postmodernist obstacles | 102 |
2 The supposed legacy of the Enlightenment | 106 |
3 Naturalism and contemporary philosophical orthodoxy | 109 |
an unpromising postmodernist reply | 113 |
5 Enlightenment and faith | 118 |
Religion and the good life the epistemic and moral resources of spirituality | 127 |
5 Detachment intervention participation | 31 |
6 Proof consistency and faith | 34 |
Religion and value the problem of heteronomy | 37 |
2 Autonomy and dependency | 41 |
3 The metaphysics of value | 46 |
4 God as source of morality | 49 |
5 Objectivity and its basis | 54 |
Religion and selfdiscovery the interior journey | 58 |
2 Psychoanalysis and philosophy | 61 |
3 Psychoanalytic critiques of religion | 64 |
4 Two responses to Fraud | 66 |
5 Mortal improvement psychoanalytic reflection and the religious quest | 73 |
Religion and language emotion symbol and fact | 79 |
2 Emotion and layers of meaning | 80 |
3 The emotional dynamic | 83 |
2 Faith and evidence | 128 |
3 Traces of the transcendent | 131 |
4 Horizons of knowledge and intimations of the beyond | 134 |
5 Moral psychology and the cultivation of virtue | 140 |
6 Dimensions of askesis | 143 |
7 From psychotherapy to spirituality | 145 |
Religion and pluralism which spirituality? | 150 |
2 Which path? | 153 |
3 Mysticism and the apophatic tradition | 159 |
4 From mystery to liturgy | 161 |
5 Distinctive culture and common humanity | 165 |
6 Images of integration | 168 |
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The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value John Cottingham Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value John Cottingham Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2005 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
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