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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785222003321

Titolo

Philosophers and God : at the frontiers of faith and reason / / edited by John Cornwell and Michael McGhee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Continuum, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

1-282-87606-6

9786612876066

1-4411-7774-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (287 p.)

Disciplina

109.2

210

Soggetti

Philosophers - Religious life

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Science and religion : the immersion solution / Peter Lipton -- What has Plotinus' one to do with God? / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Thinking, attending, praying / Nicholas Lash -- Mystery, world and religion / David E. Cooper -- Searching for God? / Daphne Hampson -- Love and reason / Janet Martin Soskice -- Beyond my God, with God's blessing / Francis X. Clooney -- In search of wisdom / Morny Joy -- Agnosticism and atheism / Anthony Kenny -- Ideals without idealism / Clare Carlisle -- The God of the prophet Jesus of Nazareth / James P. Mackey -- Humanism and spirituality : or how to be a good atheist / Michael McGhee -- A turn to spiritual virtues in philosophy of religion : 'the thoughtful love of life' / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Secularism and shared values / Richard Norman -- Religion in public life / Anthony O'Hear -- Religion and theology / Gordon Graham -- Wisdom and belief in theology and philosophy / Simon Oliver -- Provocation / Harriet A. Harris.

Sommario/riassunto

Public interest in religious debate in the UK and USA has recently been fed by a series of books of popular polemic against theism, religion and the discipline of theology itself. A small industry has grown up around these works- Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens- which have complained not



just of their theological illiteracy but also of their tendency to conflate religious belief with fundamentalism and their contribution to a public atmosphere of anti pluralist hostility to the expression of `faith positions`. The atmosphere in Britain of aggressive secularism contrasts sharply with a public cultur