Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Donald Wiebe (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 255
• Series: Library of Philosophy and Religion
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The early essays in this volume proceed on the assumption that a compatibility system can be fashioned that will not only bring religious knowledge claims into harmony with scientific claims but will also show there to be a fundamental similarity of method in religious and scientific thinking. They are not, however, unambiguously successful. Consequently Professor Wiebe sets out in the succeeding essays to seek an understanding of the religion/science relationship that does not assume they must be compatible. That examination, in the final analysis, reveals a fundamental contradiction in the compatibility system building programme which more than suggests that religious belief (knowledge) is beyond legitimation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages xv-xv
Comprehensively Critical Rationalism and Commitment....Pages 1-16
Is Religious Belief Problematic?....Pages 17-28
The Cognitive Status of Religious Belief....Pages 29-41
Explanation and Theological Method....Pages 42-56
Science and Religion: Is Compatibility Possible?....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Religion Transcending Science Transcending Religion …....Pages 77-86
Is Science Really an Implicit Religion?....Pages 87-99
Religion, Science, and the Transformation of ‘Knowledge’....Pages 100-110
Has Philosophy of Religion a Place in the Agenda of Theology?....Pages 111-118
Postulations for Safeguarding Preconceptions....Pages 119-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
Philosophical Reflections on Twentieth-Century Mennonite Thought....Pages 131-147
Comprehensiveness: The Integrity of Anglican Theology....Pages 148-161
The Ambiguous Revolution: Kant on the Nature of Faith....Pages 162-176
The ‘Centripetal Theology’ of The Great Code....Pages 177-181
An Unholy Alliance? The Creationists’ Quest for Scientific Legitimation....Pages 182-194
Back Matter....Pages 195-243

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Religion