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1 online resource (x, 182 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Critical realism--interventions
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Critical realism--interventions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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God -- Proof, Empirical.
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God -- Proof, Empirical. |
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Critical realism.
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Critical realism. |
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Philosophical theology.
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Philosophical theology. |
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Electronic books.
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Collier, Andrew, 1944-2014.
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Porpora, Douglas V.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Archer, Margaret Scotford. Transcendence. London ; New York : Routledge, 2004 0415336163 (DLC) 2003070230 (OCoLC)53953488 |
| ISBN |
9781134306718 (electronic book) |
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1134306717 (electronic book) |
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9780203420683 (e-book) |
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0203420683 (e-book) |
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0415336163 |
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9780415336161 |
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0415336171 |
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9780415336178 |
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