Realist Hope
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Alethic Realism
analytic theology debates
Apophatic God
apophatic tradition
Author_Christopher J. Insole
Cataleptic Impression
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contemporary
Contemporary Philosophical Theology
Epistemic Conception
Epistemic Dealings
Epistemic Practices
epistemology of faith
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Expressive Interpretation
game
Global Anti-realism
Ideal Epistemic Conditions
idealism
Indeterminacy Argument
Kantian critique
language
Language Games
metaphysical realism
non-epistemic
Non-epistemic Conception
Phillips's Position
Phillips’s Position
philosophical
philosophy of religion
practices
Predicate Schemas
Principle Hope
Real God
Real Referent
religious
Religious Language Game
Religious Realism
Religious Utterances
Sceptical Gap
Spatial Temporal Framework
theology
transcendental
Transcendental Idealism
Wittgensteinian Approach
Wittgensteinian theology
Product details
- ISBN 9780754654872
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Taking into consideration analytical, continental, historical, post-modern and contemporary thinkers, Insole provides a powerful defence of a realist construal of religious discourse. Insole argues that anti-realism tends towards absolutism and hubris. Where truth is exhausted by our beliefs about truth, there is no conceptual space for doubting those beliefs; only a conception of truth as absolute, given and accessible can guarantee the very humility, sense of fallibility and sensitivity to difference that the anti-realist rightly values. Cutting through some of the tired and well-rehearsed debates in this area, Insole provides a fresh perspective on approaches influenced by Wittgenstein, Kant, and apophatic theology. The defence of realism offered is unusual in being both analytically precise, and theologically sensitive, with a view to some of the wider and less well-explored cultural, ethical and political implications of the debate.
Christopher J. Insole is Professor in Philosophical Theology and Ethics at the University of Durham, UK, and Professorial Fellow at the Australian Catholic University. He has published extensively on realism and anti-realism, religious epistemology, the relationship between theology, metaphysics, and political philosophy, and on Immanuel Kant's philosophy of religion.
