Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age: Open Christian Spirituality and Ethics - Couverture souple

Greenway, William

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ISBN 10 : 1725270447 ISBN 13 : 9781725270442

Editeur : Cascade Books, 2020

Synopsis

Our global community desperately needs overt awakening to an age of reason and faith. Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age meets this need by interpreting faith not in terms of belief in propositions but in terms of living surrender to having been seized by agape for every Face, including one’s own. Virtually all faith traditions, from Buddhism to Humanism to Wiccan, are rooted in agape and therefore share considerable spiritual and ethical common ground (a truth long veiled). In contrast to ethically feckless secular rationality—over which a devastating, global social Darwinism currently runs roughshod—faith qua living surrender to agape grounds moral realism, awakens us to love for all creatures, and inspires struggles for justice. Inspired by the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas and Christian spirituality, Greenway engages, on the one hand, intellectuals like Stanley Hauerwas, Richard Rorty, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jeffery Stout, Charles Taylor, and Bernard Williams, and, on the other, contemporary debates over consciousness, free will, evil, and metaethics. He details the character of secular rationality’s devastating scission from moral reality and clarifies the promise of understanding faith and spirituality in terms of agape.

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À propos de l'auteur

William Greenway is professor of philosophical theology at Austin Seminary. Here and in A Reasonable Belief (2015), For the Love of All Creatures (2015), The Challenge of Evil (2016), Agape Ethics (2016), and Reasonable Faith for a Post-Secular Age (2020), he defends Moral Realism Theory, contending reality has an inherent moral dimension, the force signified by "agape," requiring utilization of three discrete families of vocabularies, those of 1) modern science, 2) free will, and 3) agape.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cascade Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1725270447
• ISBN 13: 9781725270442
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
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