Transcendence : critical realism and God / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier and Douglas V. Porpora.

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...

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Main Author: Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)
Other Authors: Collier, Andrew, 1944-2014, Porpora, Douglas V.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Critical realism--interventions.
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Table of Contents:
  • What do we mean by God? / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpora
  • Realism, relativism and reason in religious belief / Andrew Collier
  • Judgemental rationality and Jesus / Douglas V. Porpora
  • Models of man : the admission of transcendence / Margaret S. Archer
  • The masters of suspicion and secularisation / Andrew Collier
  • Western mysticism and the limits of language / Margaret S. Archer
  • A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue / Douglas V. Porpora
  • Natural theology, revealed theology and religious experience / Andrew Collier
  • On understanding religious experience : St Teresa as a challenge to social theory / Margaret S. Archer
  • The human project / Douglas V. Porpora
  • Emancipation, social and spiritual / Andrew Collier.