Christianity and the ethics of belief
The ethics of belief does not justify condemning all possible forms of religion even in the absence of evidence for any of them or the presence of evidence against all of them. It follows that attacks on religion like the recent one by Richard Dawkins must fail. The reason is not that there is somet...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Religious studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 44, Issue: 3, Pages: 333-346 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dawkins, Richard 1941-, The God delusion
/ Faith
/ Reason
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism CF Christianity and Science NAB Fundamental theology |
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| Summary: | The ethics of belief does not justify condemning all possible forms of religion even in the absence of evidence for any of them or the presence of evidence against all of them. It follows that attacks on religion like the recent one by Richard Dawkins must fail. The reason is not that there is something wrong with the ethics of belief but that Christian faith need not be a matter of beliefs but can instead be a matter of assumptions to which the faithful person is committed. It follows that Christianity can be compatible with scientific rationality. |
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| ISSN: | 0034-4125 |
| Contains: | In: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412508009426 |