Rationality and Religious Commitment shows how religious commitment
can be rational and describes the place of faith in the postmodern
world. It portrays religious commitment as far more than accepting
doctrines--it is viewed as a kind of life, not just as an embrace of
tenets. Faith is conceived as a unique attitude. It is irreducible to
belief but closely connected with both belief and conduct, and
intimately related to life's moral, political, and aesthetic
dimensions. Part One presents an account of rationality as a status
attainable by mature religious people--even those with a strongly
scientific habit of mind. Part Two describes what it means to have
faith, how faith is connected with attitudes, emotions, and conduct,
and how religious experience may support it. Part Three turns to
religious commitment and moral obligation and to the relation between
religion and politics. It shows how ethics and religion can be
mutually supportive even though ethics provides standards of conduct
independently of theology. It also depicts the integrated life
possible for the religiously committed--a life with rewarding
interactions between faith and reason, religion and science, and the
aesthetic and the spiritual. The book concludes with two major
accounts. One explains how moral wrongs and natural disasters are
possible under God conceived as having the knowledge, power, and
goodness that make such evils so difficult to understand. The other
account explores the nature of persons, human and divine, and yields a
conception that can sustain a rational theistic worldview even in the
contemporary scientific age.
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ISBN
9780191619526
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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