1997a
A01=D.Z. Phillips
analytic theology
Apprentice Carpenter
Author_D.Z. Phillips
Beliefs Tally
Big Daddy
Category=QRAB
Claremont
Colour Judgements
confessional context
contemporary
Contemporary Philosophy
critique of Cartesian dualism in religion
Eleventh Hour
empiricism critique
epistemology
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Follow
Friendly Fire
friends
Hold
Idle Wheel
Kierkegaard
Mario Von Der Ruhr
Moral Examples
Mother's Garden
Mother’s Garden
Phillips 1992b
philosophical
Philosophical Friends
philosophy
philosophy of mind
Propositional Element
reformed
Reformed Epistemology
religious epistemology
rhees
Rhees 1997a
rush
simone
Soul Substance
Systematische Theologie Und Religionsphilosophie
Trusting God
Wittgenstein's Method
Wittgensteinian philosophy
Wittgenstein’s Method
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780754641117
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2004
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In locating friendly fire in contemporary philosophy of religion, D.Z. Phillips shows that more harm can be done to religion by its philosophical defenders than by its philosophical despisers. Friendly fire is the result of an uncritical acceptance of empiricism, and Phillips argues that we need to examine critically the claims that individual consciousness is the necessary starting point from which we have to argue: for the existence of an external world and the reality of God; that God is a person without a body, a pure consciousness; and that to assent to a religious belief is essentially to assign a truth value to a proposition independent of any confessional context. When these products of friendly fire are avoided, we arrive at a new understanding of belief, trust and the soul, and refuse to say more or less than we know about the realities of human life in the service of religious apologetics.
D.Z. Phillips is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Wales, Swansea, UK.
