RT Article
T1 A Faith for the Future: Why Non-doxastic Traditional Religion is the Preferable Form of Evolutionary Religion
JF European journal for philosophy of religion
VO 14
IS 1
SP 95
OP 122
A1 Palmqvist, Carl-Johan
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1821176324
AB In the philosophy of J. L. Schellenberg, "evolutionary religion" is a religious stance oriented towards the deep future. According to Schellenberg, the best form of evolutionary religion is non-doxastic faith in ultimism. I reject Schellenberg’s arguments for preferring ultimism and suggest that committing non-doxastically to traditional religion makes more sense from an evolutionary perspective. I argue that the alignment argument for traditional religion remains sound even when the deep future is considered. Furthermore, I assess Schellenberg's claim that humanity is religiously immature.
K1 Agnosticism
K1 Evolutionary religion
K1 Non-Doxasticism
K1 Sceptical Religion
K1 Schellenberg
DO 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3677