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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784679403321

Autore

Smith Steven G

Titolo

Appeal and attitude [[electronic resource] ] : prospects for ultimate meaning / / Steven G. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-07247-1

9786612072475

0-253-11144-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

128/.4

Soggetti

Values

Attention

Attitude (Psychology)

Philosophical theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-344) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Appeals -- Appeal in the axial age -- The appeal in modern philosophy -- The appeal in modern theology -- Attitudes -- Attitude in the axial age -- Attitude issues in modern philosophy -- Attitude issues in modern theology -- A frame for pneumaticism.

Sommario/riassunto

In Appeal and Attitude, Steven G. Smith offers a multicultural view into                issues at the heart of existentialism, hermeneutics, and the phenomenology of                religion. By looking closely at the concepts of appeal, or what commands our                attention, and attitude, or the quality of the attention we pay, Smith probes into                the core of religious ideals to answer questions such as why faith and rationality                are compelling and how religious experience becomes meaningful. Smith turns to                philosophical and religious texts