Schellenberg's evolutionary religion: how evolutionary and how religious?
In Evolutionary Religion, J. L. Schellenberg synthesizes his previous impressive contributions to an understanding of religion by formulating an account of religion supported by a Darwinian evolutionary theory understood as a science of the deep future. Such a future enables the realization that our...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2016]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2016, Band: 52, Heft: 4, Seiten: 475-496 |
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Schellenberg, J. L. 1959-
/ Evolution
/ Religion
/ Schellenberg, J. L. 1959-, Evolutionary religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus VB Logik; philosophische Hermeneutik; philosophische Erkenntnislehre |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In Evolutionary Religion, J. L. Schellenberg synthesizes his previous impressive contributions to an understanding of religion by formulating an account of religion supported by a Darwinian evolutionary theory understood as a science of the deep future. Such a future enables the realization that our present understandings of religion are immature, that future understandings of divine reality may be radically altered and that religious practice may become the centre of human well-being. In this article, I argue that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion represents at best but half the evolutionary story, its epistemic side. Ontologically, it remains fundamentally non-evolutionary. Positively, I suggest naturalistic alternatives to Schellenberg's Ultimate. I conclude that Schellenberg's evolutionary religion is neither adequately evolutionary nor adequately religious. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412516000111 |