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Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,264 ratings — published 2012
Concluding Unscientific Postscript (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 137 ratings — published 1846
Without Proof or Evidence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1984
Practice in Christianity (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.25 — 660 ratings — published 1850
Fear and Trembling (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,923 ratings — published 1843
Culture and Value (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,964 ratings — published 1977
Philosophical Fragments/Johannes Climacus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,371 ratings — published 1844
Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology and Religious Belief (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 3.82 — 559 ratings — published 1966
Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection – The Father of Existentialism's Devotional Essays on Subjective Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
by (shelved 1 time as fideism)
avg rating 4.16 — 204 ratings — published 2010
The Evidence for God: Religious Knowledge Reexamined (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 38 ratings — published 2009
“Nevertheless, we should take the worries about reducing theology to philosophy seriously. So what we need is a philosophical approach to Divine revelation that steers clear of two oposing forms of reductionism that we have encountered so far: On the one hand, a philosophical rationalism that aims at reducing articles of faith to philosophical principles, on the other hand, a theological fideism that takes itself to be free of the restrictions of rationality and reason, and despises rational analysis in matters of faith.”
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“I agree with Pierre Bayle and with Unamuno that when cold reason contemplates the world it finds not only an absence of God, but good reasons for supposing that there is no God at all. From this perspective, from what Unamuno called the 'tragic sense of life', from this despair, faith comes to the rescue, not only as something nonrational but in a sense irrational. For Unamuno the great symbol of a person of faith was his Spanish hero Don Quixote. Faith is indeed quixotic. It is absurd. Let us admit it. Let us concede to everything! To a rational mind the world looks like a world without God. It looks like a world with no hope for another life. To think otherwise, to believe in spite of appearances, is surely a kind of madness. The atheist sees clearly that windmills are in fact only windmills, that Dulcinea is just a poor country bumpkin with a homely face and an unpleasant smell. The atheist is a Sarah, justifiably laughing in her old age at Abraham's belief that God will give them a son.
What can be said in reply? How can a fideist admit that faith is a kind of madness, a dream fed by passionate desire, and yet maintain that one is not mad to make the leap?”
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What can be said in reply? How can a fideist admit that faith is a kind of madness, a dream fed by passionate desire, and yet maintain that one is not mad to make the leap?”
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