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Religion and Friendly Fire: Examining Assumptions in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Vonhoff Lectures and Seminars, University of Groningen,

Religion and Friendly Fire: Examining Assumptions in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion: The Vonhoff Lectures and Seminars, University of Groningen,

Phillips, Dewi Zephaniah

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Religion General

ISBN10: 1138266574
ISBN13: 9781138266575
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 31 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.61
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
In locating friendly fire in contemporary philosophy of religion, D.Z.Phillips shows that more harm can be done to religion by its philosophical defenders than by its philosophical despisers. Friendly fire is the result of an uncritical acceptance of empiricism and Phillips argues that we need to examine critically the claims that individual consciousness is the necessary starting point from which we have to argue: for the existence of an external world and the reality of God; that God is a person without a body, a pure consciousness; and that to assent to a religious belief is essentially to assign a truth value to a proposition independent of any confessional context. When these products of friendly fire are avoided we arrive at a new understanding of belief, trust, the soul, and refuse to say more or less than we know about the realities of human life in the service of religious apologetics.

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