Science and Religious Anthropology: A Spiritually Evocative Naturalist Interpretation of Human Life. By Wesley J. Wildman
This is a hugely impressive book, as one would expect of Wesley Wildman. It displays astonishing energy and vision, great clarity and precision of thought, and impressively broad scholarship. Nevertheless, the project undertaken here does not seem to me entirely convincing or satisfactory, and I wil...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 833-834 |
| Review of: | Science and religious anthropology (Farnham, England : Ashgate Pub. Ltd, 2009) (Watts, Fraser N.)
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| Summary: | This is a hugely impressive book, as one would expect of Wesley Wildman. It displays astonishing energy and vision, great clarity and precision of thought, and impressively broad scholarship. Nevertheless, the project undertaken here does not seem to me entirely convincing or satisfactory, and I will explain why. Wildman sets out to present a ‘spiritually evocative yet thoroughly naturalistic’ interpretation of the religiousness of humanity. This raises huge conceptual issues, of which Wildman shows that he is acutely aware, but I am not sure that he handles them satisfactorily., One of the problems with naturalism as a project is that it is largely defined by what it is not; its commitment is not to be supernaturalist. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr064 |