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Religions, Reasons and Gods
Essays in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Religion

  • Date Published: January 2010
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9780521126274

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  • Traditional theistic proofs are often understood as evidence intended to compel belief in a divinity. John Clayton explores the surprisingly varied applications of such proofs in the work of philosophers and theologians from several periods and traditions, thinkers as varied as Ramanuja, al-Ghazali, Anselm, and Jefferson. He shows how the gradual disembedding of theistic proofs from their diverse and local religious contexts is concurrent with the development of natural theologies and atheism as social and intellectual options in early modern Europe and America. Clayton offers a fresh reading of the early modern history of philosophy and theology, arguing that awareness of such history, and the local uses of theistic argument, offer important ways of managing religious and cultural difference in the public sphere. He argues for the importance of historically grounded philosophy of religion to the field of religious studies and public debate on religious pluralism and cultural diversity.

    • Offers a fresh reading of the early modern history of philosophy and theology
    • Draws on the work of philosophers and theologians from a wide range of historical religious and philosophical traditions
    • Based on the author's prestigious Stanton lectures
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    • Date Published: January 2010
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9780521126274
    • length: 396 pages
    • dimensions: 229 x 152 x 22 mm
    • weight: 0.58kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    Editorial preface
    Acknowledgments
    List of abbreviations
    1. Claims, contexts and contestability
    Part I. Reason and Religious Pluralism:
    2. Thomas Jefferson and the study of religion
    3. Common ground and defensible difference
    4. Religions, reasons and gods
    Part II. Theistic Arguments in Pre-Modern Contexts:
    5. Ramanuja, Hume and 'comparative philosophy'
    6. Piety and the proofs
    7. The otherness of Anselm
    Part III. Theistic Arguments in Early-Modern Contexts:
    8. The debate about God in early-modern French philosophy
    9. The debate about God in early-modern German philosophy
    10. The debate about God in early-modern British philosophy
    11. Beyond the 'enlightenment project'?
    Appendix. The 1997 Hulsean sermon
    Bibliography
    Index.

  • Author

    John Clayton

    Prepared for publication by

    Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University, New York

    Thomas D. Carroll, Boston University

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