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Transcendence
Margaret Scotford Archer
Andrew Collier
Douglas V. Porpora
其他書名
Critical Realism and God
出版
Psychology Press
, 2004
主題
Religion / General
Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic
Social Science / Sociology / General
ISBN
0415336171
9780415336178
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gRtlZv2S5o8C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 becomes subject to the hermeneutics of suspicion.
This book explores religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief. It uniquely demonstrates that the three pillars of critical realism - ontological intransitivity, epistemic relativity and judgemental rationality - can be applied to religion as to any other beliefs or theories.
The three authors are critical realists by philosophical position. They seek to establish a level playing field between religion and secular ideas, which has not existed in the academic world for some generations, in order for reasoned debate to be conducted.