Beyond Legitimation: Essays on the Problem of Religious Knowledge

by Donald Wiebe

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333614907
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/26/1994
Series:	Library of Philosophy and Religion
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	243
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements - Preface - PART 1: COMPATIBILITY SYSTEMS AND THE LEGITIMATION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF - Comprehensively Critical Rationalism and Commitment - Is Religious Belief Problematic? - The Cognitive Status of Religious Belief - Explanation and Theological Method - Science and Religion: Is Compatability Possible? - PART 2: BEYOND LEGITIMATION: COMPATIBILITY SYSTEMS RECONSIDERED - Being Faithful and Being Reasonable as Mutually Exclusive - Religion Transcending Science Transcending Religion - Is Science Really an Implicit Religion? - Religion, Science, and the Transformation of 'Knowledge' - Has Philosophy of Religion a Place in the Agenda of Theology? - PART 3: ON THE INCOMMENSURABILITY OF SCIENTIFIC AND RELIGIOUS BELIEF - Philosophical Reflections on Twentieth Century Mennonite Thought - Comprehensiveness as the Integrity of Anglican Theology - The Ambiguous Revolution: Kant on the Nature of Faith - The Centripetal Theology of The Great Code - An Unholy Alliance? The Creationists' Quest for Scientific Legitimation