Religion and Friendly Fire

Examining Assumptions in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

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D.Z. Phillips

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In locating friendly fire in contemporary philosophy of religion, D.Z. Phillips shows that more harm can be done to religion by its philosophical defenders than by its philosophical despisers. Friendly fire is the result of an uncritical acceptance of empiricism, and Phillips argues that we need to examine critically the claims that individual consciousness is the necessary starting point from which we have to argue: for the existence of an external world and the reality of God; that God is a person without a body, a pure consciousness; and that to assent to a religious belief is essentially to assign a truth value to a proposition independent of any confessional context. When these products of friendly fire are avoided, we arrive at a new understanding of belief, trust, the soul, and refuse to say more or less than we know about the realities of human life in the service of religious apologetics.

Author Biography:

D.Z. Phillips is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.

Release date NZ

November 8th, 2004

Author

D.Z. Phillips

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

192

ISBN-13

9780754641117

Product ID

27116241

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