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Zusatztext 'This is a useful collection of essays not only for grasping the main issues and controversies arising from Phillips' philosophy of religion! but also for providing thought-provoking discussions of many of the central problems in philosophy of religion as such.' Theological Book Review Informationen zum Autor Andy F. Sanders is a Member of the Center for Theological Inquiry (Princeton)! is founder and secretary of the Netherlands Society for Philosophy of Religion! and is currently Director of the Graduate School for Theology & Religious Studies at the University of Groningen! The Netherlands. Dr Sanders is the author of Michael Polanyi's Post-Critical Epistemology (1988) and Fifty Years of Philosophy of Religion. A Selected Bibliography (1955-2005) (2007). He is also (co-)editor of Concepts of Person in Religion and Thought (Berlin/New York 1990)! and Belief in God and Intellectual Honesty (1990) and numerous articles in philosophy of religion! religious epistemology and Polanyi studies in English-American journals and books. Klappentext What are the main characteristics of DZ Phillips' contemplative approach! which is inspired by thinkers like Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein and meant as a serious! critical alternative to the mainstream way of doing philosophy of religion? This work features essays of six scholars who critically and sympathetically address such questions. Zusammenfassung This collection presents a critical discussion and exploration of the late D.Z. Phillips' contemplative approach in the philosophy of religion. It offers a major contribution to the development of alternative approaches in the philosophy of religion, and presents D.Z. Phillips' last reflections on eternal life, petitionary prayer and radical pluralism.
