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
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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 |
Bibliography | 173 |
Index | 183 |
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The Spiritual Dimension: Religion, Philosophy and Human Value John Cottingham Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2005 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
analytic analytic philosophy Aquinas argued argument askesis Augustine Cambridge University Press chapter Christian claims cognitive conception construed cosmos Cottingham create creator Critique David Hume Descartes discourse divine doctrine domain emotional Enlightenment epistemic ethical Ethical Intuitionism example existence experience external faith fideism Freud Gerard Manley Hopkins God's human Hume idea intellectual interpretation involved Kant Kantian kind knowledge literal lives logical London Ludwig Wittgenstein meaning metaphor metaphysics modern moral mystery mystical nature Nicomachean Ethics objective Oxford University Press perhaps phenomenal world philosophical philosophy of religion Plantinga plausible possible praxis prayer problem problem of evil programme propositions psychoanalytic question radical rational reality reason reflection religious adherent religious language religious outlook response Routledge scientific seems sense simply spiritual praxis Summa theologiae supervenience supposed symbolic theist theistic theodicy theology theory things thought tradition transcendent transl truth ultimate understanding virtue Wittgenstein
Populaire passages
Pagina 168 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not.
Pagina 43 - As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name...
Pagina 68 - ... as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Pagina 108 - ... territory of pure understanding, and carefully surveyed every part of it, but have also measured its extent, and assigned to everything in it its rightful place. This domain is an island, enclosed by nature itself within unalterable limits. It is the land of truth - enchanting name! surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the native home of illusion, where many a fog bank and many a swiftly melting iceberg give the deceptive appearance of farther shores, deluding the adventurous seafarer ever...
Pagina 47 - When we look about us towards external objects, and consider the operation of causes, we are never able, in a single instance, to discover any power or necessary connexion; any quality, which binds the effect to the cause, and renders the one an infallible consequence of the other. We only find, that the one does actually, in fact, follow the other.
Pagina 120 - It is confessed, that the utmost effort of human reason is to reduce the principles, productive of natural phenomena, to a greater simplicity, and to resolve the many particular effects into a few general causes, by means of reasonings from analogy, experience, and observation.
Pagina 57 - O GOD, who art the author of peace, and lover of concord, in knowledge of whom standeth our eternal life, whose service is perfect freedom : Defend us, thy humble servants, in all assaults of our enemies ; that we, surely trusting in thy defence, may not fear the power of any adversaries, through the might of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Pagina 34 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll ! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin, his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...