Schellenberg's evolutionary religion: how evolutionary and how religious?

In Evolutionary Religion, J. L. Schellenberg synthesizes his previous impressive contributions to an understanding of religion by formulating an account of religion supported by a Darwinian evolutionary theory understood as a science of the deep future. Such a future enables the realization that our...

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主要作者: Rottschaefer, William A. 1933- (Author)
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语言:English
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出版: Cambridge Univ. Press [2016]
In: Religious studies
Year: 2016, 卷: 52, 发布: 4, Pages: 475-496
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Schellenberg, J. L. 1959- / 进化 / 宗教 / Schellenberg, J. L. 1959-, Evolutionary religion
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
VB Hermeneutics; Philosophy
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总结:In Evolutionary Religion, J. L. Schellenberg synthesizes his previous impressive contributions to an understanding of religion by formulating an account of religion supported by a Darwinian evolutionary theory understood as a science of the deep future. Such a future enables the realization that our present understandings of religion are immature, that future understandings of divine reality may be radically altered and that religious practice may become the centre of human well-being. In this article, I argue that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion represents at best but half the evolutionary story, its epistemic side. Ontologically, it remains fundamentally non-evolutionary. Positively, I suggest naturalistic alternatives to Schellenberg's Ultimate. I conclude that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion is neither adequately evolutionary nor adequately religious.
ISSN:1469-901X
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412516000111