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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      22 September 2009
      12 October 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511488382
      9780521772938
      9780521169233
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488382
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 340 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 340 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Epistemology and Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Religion, Philosophy
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    Far from merely reinvigorating relativism, postmodernism has detected and expressed in our time a powerful nihilating process of which truth and reality itself are the final casualties; and with these morality and religion. Beginning from the theological reaches of philosophy, this book argues that gods played a crucial part in modern philosophy, even when it was most critical of them; that the dominant nihilism of Derrida is really an excessive and misleading outcome of a contemporary philosophy which could otherwise resonate with all that is best in our evolutionary image of the universe; that moralists who turn to art in order to overcome the fact–value version of this deadly dualism do not thereby rule out religion; and that a Christian theology which recognises the evolutionary and historical conditions of faith and revelation is once again producing a theology that builds upon the best of contemporary philosophy and science.

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    Review of the hardback:‘Mackey paints on a large canvas with a rich and varied palette. If mind and reality have indeed gone missing from recent philosophy, Mackey’s application of theological reason offers beguiling pointers to their restoration.’

    John Saxbee Source: Church Times

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