A Philosophical Inquiry Into Analysis of Religious Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Philosophical Inquiry Into Analysis of Religious Discourse write by Allison L. Lewis. This book was released on 1954. A Philosophical Inquiry Into Analysis of Religious Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Truth and Belief
Truth and Belief - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Truth and Belief write by H.E. Hofmeister. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Truth and Belief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The task of the following considerations is the elucidation of the relationship of religion to thought. Every philosophical investigation with this task proceeds under the expectation that it will take into account religious self-understanding. Herein lies the special difficulty of a philosophical theory of religion. On the one hand, the philosopher of religion may not assume this self-understanding in order to avoid offering a religious theory (a theology) instead of the philosophical theory expected from him. On the other hand, he cannot by-pass religious self-understanding because this is the key to insight into the uniqueness of religious discourse. Without knowledge of this uniqueness, it is impossible to indicate the conditions under which religious statements lead to the question of truth. Even if religion cannot prescribe to philosophical investigation, whose methods the latter must apply to examine its object, it may in addition require that the standard by which it is measured be suited to grasp those special characteristics which mark it as different from other realms of life. Therefore, it may be required of the philosophical interpretation, that the question of the legitimacy and validity of religious self-understanding be treated from the very beginning as an open one, and not as one already decided. If this question is rashly decided in the negative, then all analysis of religious propositions is necessarily done along the guidelines of a method that in its foundation masks of the religious thematic.
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith write by John Rawls. This book was released on 2009-03-31. A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith is Rawls’s undergraduate senior thesis, submitted in December 1942, just before he entered the army. At that time Rawls was deeply religious; the thesis is a significant work of theological ethics, of interest both in itself and because of its relation to his mature writings. “On My Religion,” a short statement drafted in 1997, describes the history of his religious beliefs and attitudes toward religion, including his abandonment of orthodoxy during World War II. The present volume includes these two texts, together with an Introduction by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which discusses their relation to Rawls’s published work, and an essay by Robert Merrihew Adams, which places the thesis in its theological context. The texts display the profound engagement with religion that forms the background of Rawls’s later views on the importance of separating religion and politics. Moreover, the moral and social convictions that the thesis expresses in religious form are related in illuminating ways to the central ideas of Rawls’s later writings. His notions of sin, faith, and community are simultaneously moral and theological, and prefigure the moral outlook found in Theory of Justice.
Logic in Religious Discourse
Logic in Religious Discourse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logic in Religious Discourse write by Andrew Schumann. This book was released on 2010. Logic in Religious Discourse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Knocking on Heaven's Door is the oldest human dream that seems unrealized still. Religious discourse does show the road, but it requires a blind faith in return. In this book logicians try to hear Heaven's Call and to analyze religious discourse. As a result, the notion of religious logic as a part of philosophical logic is introduced. Its tasks are (1) to construct consistent logical systems formalizing religious reasoning that at first sight seems inconsistent (this research is fulfilled within the limits of modal logic, paraconsistent logic and many-valued logic), (2) to carry out an illocutionary analysis of religious discourse (this research is fulfilled in frames of illocutionary logics), and (3) to formalize Ancient and Medieval logical theories used in the theology of an appropriate religion (they could be studied within the limits of unconventional logics, such as non-monotonic logics, non-well-founded logics, etc.).
Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry
Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry write by Wesley J. Wildman. This book was released on 2010-11-05. Religious Philosophy as Multidisciplinary Comparative Inquiry available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What can philosophy contribute to the study of religion? This book argues that the study of religion needs philosophy in the form of multidisciplinary comparative inquiry. Contradicting the current tendency to regard philosophical reflection and the academic study of religion as independent endeavors best kept apart, Wesley J. Wildman brings them together, offering a broader vision than that of traditional "philosophy of religion" and surmounting many of its difficulties. His newer conception of "religious philosophy" is well suited to the modern, multicultural, secular university. Through multidisciplinary comparative inquiry, religious philosophy allows for a variety of approaches—from historical and analytical work to evocative description and theoretical evaluation of truth claims—and both secular and religious thinkers participate. The tasks and varieties of religious philosophy as they arc across the world's religions and philosophies are discussed along with religious philosophy's modern and postmodern contexts. Wildman's thoughtful and thought-provoking book will be essential reading for all those concerned with the study of religion, present and future.
