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Recovering Religious Concepts

Closing Epistemic Divides

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. D. Z. Phillips

    1. University of Wales, Swansea, UK
      Claremont Graduate University, USA

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Part of the book series: Swansea Studies in Philosophy (SWSP)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Where We Are: at the Mercy of Method

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    Pages 1-15

  3. Return of the Monstrous Illusion

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    Pages 16-23

  4. Epistemic Practices: the Retreat from Reality

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    Pages 24-44

  5. From World to God? Searching for Mediation

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    Pages 45-62

  6. The Friends of Cleanthes: a Case of Conceptual Poverty

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    Pages 63-81

  7. Revelation and the Loss of Authority

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    Pages 82-102

  8. Turning God into one Devil of a Problem

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    Pages 103-128

  9. Miracles and Open-Door Epistemology

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    Pages 129-137

  10. The Dislocated Soul and Immortality

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    Pages 138-156

  11. The World and ‘I’

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    Pages 157-170

  12. The Radiance of a False Eternity

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    Pages 171-190

  13. In the Beginning was the Proposition – In the Beginning was the Choice – In the Beginning was the Dance

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    Pages 191-210

  14. God and Concept-Formation

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    Pages 211-226

  15. Where Are the Gods Now? Time for Judgement

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    Pages 227-241

  16. Anglo-American Philosophical Culture: Religion and the Reception of Wittgenstein

    • D. Z. Phillips
    Pages 242-259

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 260-272
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About this book

Here it is argued that we need to recover concepts from the distortions of philosophy. In this collection the author shows the disastrous consequences for an understanding of religion of the epistemic divides which can be found in contemporary philosophy of religion; divides between belief and practice, the world and God, religious experience and religious contexts. By closing these divides religious significance is given its proper place.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Wales, Swansea, UK

    D. Z. Phillips

  • Claremont Graduate University, USA

    D. Z. Phillips

About the author

D. Z. PHILLIPS is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate School, California. and Rush Rhees Research Professor, University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include The Concept of Prayer; Faith and Philosophical Enquiry; Death and Immortality; Moral Practices (with H.O. Mounce); Sense and Delusion (with Ilham Dilman); Athronyddu am Grefydd; Religion Without Explanation; Through the Darkening Glass; Dramâu Gwenlyn Parry; Belief, Change and Forms of Life; R.S.Thomas: Poet of the Hidden God; Faith After Foundationalism; From Fantasy to Faith; Interventions in Ethics; Wittgenstein and Religion; Writers of Wales: J.R. Jones; Introducing Philosophy and The Challenge of Scepticism.

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