Scepticism, Relativism and Religious Knowledge : A Kierkegaardian Perspective Informed by Wittgenstein's Philosophy

Harvey, Michael G.

James Clarke & Co Ltd（2014/09発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 216 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780227174258
• DDC分類 149

Full Description

'Scepticism, Relativism, and Religious Knowledge' shows where responses to scepticism and relativism by Karl Barth and Reformed epistemology have led to impasses, and reconstructs their insights in a robust response that does not depend on making excessive claims about our epistemic capacities. This response is based on a nuanced conception of the relationship between trust, doubt, faith, and reason, and a Kierkegaardian perspective on religious knowledge that stresses the role of the will and the intellectual and theological virtues.

This book will appeal to those with an interest in the deep, and often difficult, questions of religion and philosophy, particularly regarding matters of truth, doubt and belief.

Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part One: The Exclusive Disjunction of Objectivism or Relativism
1 Religious Language, Reference, and Autonomy
2 Revelation, Imagination, and Arbitrariness

Part Two: A Hermeneutical Model of Rationality
3 Rationality, Relativism, and Skepticism
4 Tradition, Worldviews, and Conflict
5 Science, Rationality, and Theology

Part Three: A Kierkegaardian Perspective on Religious Knowledge
6 Faith, Knowledge, and Belief
7 Faith, Knowledge, and Truth
8 Faith, Knowledge, and Suffering

Conclusion
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index