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The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, Faith
Does it make sense - can it make sense - for someone who appreciates the explanatory power of modern science to continue believing in a traditional religious account of the ultimate nature and purpose of our universe? This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied with the rigid dichotomies that dominate the contemporary debate. The extre...more
Hardcover, 184 pages
Published
December 31st 2011
by Oxford University Press, USA
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I was sent it to read ahead of the conference I am currently attending. In the book Clayton and Knapp attempt to give a rational basis for their religious belief, a rational basis that can communicate with skeptics and nonbelievers.
Many of the issues they discuss and the options they give demonstrate a very careful, well-thought rational presentation of religious and Christian thought. And they are to be commended for attempting a form of realism about resurrection, Trinity, etc., rather than re...more
Many of the issues they discuss and the options they give demonstrate a very careful, well-thought rational presentation of religious and Christian thought. And they are to be commended for attempting a form of realism about resurrection, Trinity, etc., rather than re...more
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Philip Clayton is the Dean of Claremont School of Theology and Provost of Claremont Lincoln University.
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