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Transcendence : critical realism and God / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier and Douglas V. Porpora

Author
Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)
Published
London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 182 pages).
Additional Creators
Collier, Andrew, 1944-2014 and Porpora, Douglas V.
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Contents
What do we mean by God? / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpora -- Realism, relativism and reason in religious belief / Andrew Collier -- Judgemental rationality and Jesus / Douglas V. Porpora -- Models of man : the admission of transcendence / Margaret S. Archer -- The masters of suspicion and secularisation / Andrew Collier -- Western mysticism and the limits of language / Margaret S. Archer -- A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue / Douglas V. Porpora -- Natural theology, revealed theology and religious experience / Andrew Collier -- On understanding religious experience : St Teresa as a challenge to social theory / Margaret S. Archer -- The human project / Douglas V. Porpora -- Emancipation, social and spiritual / Andrew Collier.
Summary
Atheism as a belief does not have to present intellectual credentials within academia. Yet to hold beliefs means giving reasons for doing so, ones which may be found wanting. Instead, atheism is the automatic default setting within the academic world. Conversely, religious belief confronts a double standard. Religious believers are not permitted to make truth claims but are instead forced to present their beliefs as part of one language game amongst many. Religious truth claims are expected to satisfy empiricist criteria of evidence but when they fail, as they must, religious belief b.
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9781134306718 (electronic bk.)
1134306717 (electronic bk.)
9780203420683 (e-book)
0203420683 (e-book)
0415336163
9780415336161
0415336171
9780415336178
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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