"A Shuddering Awareness of Death and Life Together": Doing Justice to Ambivalence in the Philosophy of Religion

Ambivalence is a prominent feature of religious traditions, with respect both to the attitudes exhibited in the faith of many religious practitioners and to the qualities embodied in conceptions of the divine. Yet these ambivalences have received little scrutiny from philosophy of religion, especial...

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Main Author: Burley, Mikel 1972- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Chicago Press 2021
In: The journal of religion
Year: 2021, Volume: 101, Issue: 4, Pages: 433-454
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