Renewing Philosophy Of Religion: Exploratory Essays

Renewing Philosophy Of Religion: Exploratory Essays
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This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how. The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which philosophers of religionshould approach their field. In the first part are chapters on how an emphasis on faith distorts attempts to engage non-western religious ideas on how philosophers from different traditions might collaborate on common interests on why the common presupposition of ultimacy leads to error on hownew religious movements feed a naturalistic philosophy of religion on why a focus on belief and a focus on practice are both mistaken on why philosophy's deep axiological concern should set much of the field's agenda and on how the field might contribute to religious evolution. The second part includes a qualitative analysis of the standpoint of fifty-one philosophers of religion, and also addresses issues about humility needed in continental philosophy of religion about the implausibility of claiming that one's own worldview is uniquely rational about the Mooreanapproach to religious epistemology about a Spinozan middle way between "insider" and "outsider" perspectives and about the unorthodox lessons we could learn from scriptures like the book of Job if we could get past the confessional turn in recent philosophy of religion. The goal of the volume is to identify new paths for philosophers of religion that are distinct from those travelled by theologians and other scholars of religion.

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