Monotheism and Tolerance - Recovering a Religion of Reason

Informationen zum Autor Robert Erlewine is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Illinois Wesleyan University. Klappentext Monotheism and Tolerance suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence. Zusammenfassung Is religious conservatism compatible with tolerance and pluralism? Why are religious tolerance and pluralism so difficult to achieve? Why is the often violent fundamentalist backlash against them so potent? This book suggests a way to deal with the intractable problem of religiously motivated and justified violence. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Part 1. Overcoming the Current Crisis 1. Monotheism, Tolerance, and Pluralism: The Current Impasse 2. Learning from the Past: Introducing the Thinkers of the Religion of Reason Part 2. Mendelssohn: Idolatry and Indiscernability 3. Mendelssohn and the Repudiation of Divine Tyranny 4. Monotheism and the Indiscernible Other Part 3. Kant: Religious Tolerance 5. Radical Evil and the Mire of Unsocial Sociability 6. Kant and the Religion of Tolerance Part 4. Cohen: Ethical Intolerance 7. Cohen and the Monotheism of Correlation 8. Cohen, Rational Supererogation, and the Suffering Servant Conclusion: Revelation, Reason, and the Legacy of the Enlightenment Notes Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Erlewine, Erlewine Robert
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2010
• EAN: 9780253221568
• ISBN: 978-0-253-22156-8
• No. of pages: 258
• Series: Indiana Series in the Philosop; Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion; Indiana Series in the Philosop; Philosophy of Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous