New Models of Religious Understanding

A collection of original essays offering new ways to understand religion by challenging the terms of debate in the face of contemporary critiques, in particular philosophical naturalism.

List of contents

• Notes on Contributors


• Introduction


• 1: John Cottingham: Transcending Science: Humane Models of Religious Understanding


• 2: Fiona Ellis: Religious Understanding, Naturalism, and Theory


• 3: Edward Kanterian: Naturalism, Involved Philosophy, and the Human Predicament


• 4: David McPherson: Transfiguring Love


• 5: Clare Carlisle: Habit, Practice, Grace: Towards a Philosophy of Religious Life


• 6: Mark Wynn: Aesthetic Goods and the Nature of Religious Understanding


• 7: Kyle Scott: Religious Knowledge versus Religious Understanding


• 8: Silvia Jonas: Modal Structuralism and Theism


• 9: Eleonore Stump: Theology and the Knowledge of Persons


• 10: Keith Ward: Religious Understanding in a Contemporary Global Context


• 11: Charles Taliaferro: Love and Philosophy of Religion: Lessons from the Cambridge Platonists

About the author

Fiona Ellis is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Roehampton and Director of the Centre for Philosophy of Religion at Heythrop College, University of London. She has published on a wide variety of subjects including the philosophy of love and desire, nature and naturalism, and the relation between philosophy and theology. She is the author of God, Value, and Nature (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Summary

A collection of original essays offering new ways to understand religion by challenging the terms of debate in the face of contemporary critiques, in particular philosophical naturalism.

Additional text

Superbly edited by Fiona Ellis

Product details

• Authors: Fiona Ellis, Fiona (Professor of Philosophy and Director Ellis, Fiona (Reader in Philosophy and Director of Ellis
• Assisted by: Fiona Ellis (Editor), Ellis Fiona (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780198796732
• ISBN: 978-0-19-879673-2
• No. of pages: 258
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Theism, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Religion & Science, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Nature & existence of God, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Religion and science, Religion & science, RELIGION / Christian Living / Spiritual Growth, Nature and existence of God and of the Divine