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Religious belief and ‘reductionism’

When is an analysis of religious belief a ‘reductionist’ analysis?

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  1. London, 1965.

  2. Mascall criticized Braithwaite’s Eddington Memorial Lecture at greater length in hisWords and Images (London, 1957).

  3. Op. cit., Mascall criticized Braithwaite’s Eddington Memorial Lecture at greater length in hisWords and Images (London, 1957). p. 1.

  4. Honest to God, p. 27.

  5. Op. cit., Honest to God, p. 36.

  6. Op. cit., Honest to God, pp. 36–38.

  7. London, 1964.

  8. The difficulties alluded to are pungently discussed in chapters VI and VII of R. W. Hepburn’sChristianity and Paradox (London, 1958).

  9. Op. cit., The difficulties alluded to are pungently discussed in chapters VI and VII of R. W. Hepburn’sChristianity and Paradox (London, 1958). p. 56.

  10. P. 42.

  11. Pp. 40–41.

  12. “God and the Theologians”,Encounter, September 1963 (Reprinted with abbreviations inThe Honest to God Debate edited by D. L. Edwards and J. A. T. Robinson, London, 1963.)

  13. Op. cit. “God and the Theologians”,Encounter, September 1963 (Reprinted with abbreviations inThe Honest to God Debate edited by D. L. Edwards and J. A. T. Robinson, London, 1963.)

  14. See, for example, J. Hick,Philosophy of Religion, (New York, 1963). Introduction, p. 1.

  15. Australian Journal of Philosophy, 1962, p. 217.

  16. Ibid. Australian Journal of Philosophy, 1962, p. 217.

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Thornton, J.C. Religious belief and ‘reductionism’. SOPH 5, 3–16 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02900088

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