The Spiritual Dimension
The Spiritual Dimension
$32.00
USDOffering a new model for the philosophy of religion, John Cottingham combines emotional and intellectual aspects of our human experience, and embraces practical as well as theoretical concerns. Cottingham reveals how a religious worldview is best understood not as an isolated set of doctrines, but as intimately related to spiritual praxis and to the search for self-understanding and moral growth. Touching on many important debates in contemporary philosophy and theology, but accessible to general readers, this book covers a range of central topics in the philosophy of religion.
- A book that builds bridges between philosophy and religious studies
- John Cottingham charts a new direction in the philosophy of religion bringing together emotional and intellectual aspects of human experience
- A wide ranging book which will appeal to readers with varied philosophical outlooks
Reviews & endorsements
"Beautifully written and beautifully produced...Cottingham articulates, in this fine book, a deeply attractive and thoroughly Catholic account of what it is to be a religious person, cultivating a certain affective openness and emotional receptivity without sacrificing intellectual integrity." The Tablet
Product details
October 2005Paperback
9780521604970
200 pages
228 × 154 × 13 mm
0.326kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Religion and spirituality: from praxis to belief
- 2. Religion and science: theodicy in an imperfect universe
- 3. Religion and value: the problem of heteronomy
- 4. Religion and self-discovery: the interior journey
- 5. Religion and language: emotion, symbol and fact
- 6. Religion and the Enlightenment: modernist and postmodern obstacles
- 7. Religion and the good life: epistemic
- 8. Religion and pluralism: which spirituality?
