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10%OFFAnne Inman - Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship - 9780268031770 - V9780268031770
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Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship

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Description for Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship Paperback. Critiques modern attempts to explain the knowability of God and points the way toward a religious epistemology that avoids their pitfalls. As examples of contemporary rationalist and postliberal approaches, this work analyzes the religious epistemologies of philosopher Richard Swinburne and theologians George Lindbeck and Ronald Theimann. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.

In Evidence and Transcendence, Anne Inman critiques modern attempts to explain the knowability of God and points the way toward a religious epistemology that avoids their pitfalls. Christian apologetics faces two major challenges: the classic Enlightenment insistence on the need to provide evidence for anything that is put forward for belief; and the argument that all human knowledge is mediated by finite reality and thus no "knowledge"of a being interpreted as completely other than finite reality is possible.

Modern Christian apologists have tended to understand their task primarily, if not exclusively, in terms of one of these challenges. As ... Read more

The root cause of such failures, Inman argues, is an inadequate philosophy of God and of the relation of God and the finite world. Her exploration of the theologies of Karl Rahner and Friedrich Schleiermacher provides the material for the constructive work in this book. Against rationalist and postliberal epistemologies, Inman calls for an austere grounding of Christian faith in the claim that God is known in human conscious activity as such, as the "other" that grounds the finite.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268031770
SKU
V9780268031770
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About Anne Inman
Anne E. Inman is an adjunct associate professor at the University of Notre Dame, London Centre, and a lecturer at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Roehampton.

Reviews for Evidence and Transcendence: Religious Epistemology and the God-World Relationship
“An invaluable contribution to theology. It illuminates central issues of theology: the understanding of God, the demand for evidence, the rationality of Christian belief, and the relationship between philosophy and theology. It presents an excellent survey of several major theological approaches (analytic philosophy of religion, American neo-pragmatism, and continental theology) and offers a balanced proposal that seeks to incorporate the ... Read more

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