Being Reasonable about Religion

ISBN-13: 9781138618923 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 178 str.

William Charlton

Opis

This book explains how to find our way through these disputes and shows how we can be freed from assumptions and prejudices which make progress impossible by deeper philosophical insight into the concepts involved. Books about religion usually concentrate on a few central Judaeo-Christian doctrines.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction: plan of the book; Religion; Gods; Sorcery; Christian superstition; The spread of Christianity; Reason; Science and understanding; Accommodation with philosophy; War with science; Explaining the physical order; Explaining mind; The last exorcism; Creation; Conceiving Jehovah; The Trinity; Salvation; From natural to supernatural; Baptism; The Eucharist; 'The whole truth'; Religion and morality; Index.

O autorze

William Charlton