An edition of The critical way in religion (1980)

The critical way in religion

testing and questing

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May 5, 2015 | History
An edition of The critical way in religion (1980)

The critical way in religion

testing and questing

In The Critical Way in Religion, Duncan Howlett proposes a new approach to the age-old question of religious belief. According to the author, authority and tradition cannot provide adequate answers for religion, nor can modern liberalism. These approaches fail to come to terms with the problems of human error and the need for innovation. Organized religion has not subjected its claim to know eternal truth to the severe testing accepted in all other disciplines and has been highly resistant to the introduction of new practices and patterns of thought. The Critical Way in Religion identifies a religious tradition older than Christianity and at least as old as Judaism that has taken human fallibility and human resourcefulness fully into account. The author traces the evolution of this tradition from its beginning in Greece in the sixth century B.C. and shows how its characteristic principles have developed. Today, although worldwide in scope but by no means universally accepted, the critical approach to religion is found inside as well as outside organized religion, among churchgoers and among the supposedly nonreligious as well. Howlett maintains that the critical tradition in religion developed independent of the Judeo-Christian tradition but that the two are closely related. The critical tradition has its heroes, its martyrs, and a growing body of thought, but as yet no name and no church fully committed to it. Although the modern worldwide university system is the critical spirit institutionalized, it is primarily nonreligious. This book calls for the institutionalizing of the critical spirit in religion and concludes with a set of clear and positive, yet critical, religious principles. - Back cover.

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Prometheus Books
Language
English
Pages
360

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The critical way in religion: testing and questing
1980, Prometheus Books
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Table of Contents

Part one : Divine truth and human error.
The critical way in religion
Human fallibility
Part two : The critical tradition in the religion of the West.
The critical tradition is born
"Right" belief
Defenders of the faith
The rebirth of the critical tradition in Europe
The Renaissance
Erasmus and Castellio
The Enlightenment
The legacy of the Enlightenment
Modern times
Part three : The ecclesiastical way and human fallibility.
Belief and faith
Revelation
Part four : The critical way.
Despair, hope, and resolve
The university
Fundamentals
The tribunal of truth
The way leads on

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Published in
Buffalo, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
200/.1
Library of Congress
BL51 .H83, BL51 .H83 1980

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
ix, 360 p.
Number of pages
360
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4094704M
Internet Archive
criticalwayinrel0000howl
ISBN 10
0879751339
LCCN
80007460
OCLC/WorldCat
6779417
Library Thing
4251077
Goodreads
4619947

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