A Critical faith : a case for religion / Gerd Theissen.
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Fortress Press, c1979.Description: viii, 101 p.; 21 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - BT 1102 .T44
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Contents:
Three Criticisms of religion
1. Relativity and historical consciousness --
(a) Relativity and the methods of historical criticism --
(b) Relativity and the results of historical criticism --
2. Empiricism and truth claims --
3. Religion and ideology --
(a) Four arguments --
(b) Criticism of the effects of religion --
(c) Criticism of the genesis of religion --
(d) Ideological criticism and the question of truth --
4. Summary --
II. Religion and Ideological Criticism --
1. Is religion pathological? --
(a) Transcendence in religious experience --
(b) The ambivalence of religious experience --
(c) The competitiveness of religious experience --
(e) Summary --
2. Is religion obsolete? --
(a) The historicity of religion --
(b) The 'obsoleteness' of religion --
(c) The necessity of religion --
(d) summary --
III. Empiricist criticism --
1. Are religious conceptions projections? --
(a) Religious and scientific experience --
(b) The structure of religious conceptions --
(c) The basis of religious conceptions in experience --
(d) Religious experience of the natural order: nomological resonance and experience of the absurd --
(e) Religious experience with other human beings: experience of resonance and absurdity in interpretation, society and love --
(f) Religious experience of life: organological experience of resonance and absurdity --
(g) Religious experience of the beautiful: aesthetic experience of resonance and absurdity --
(h) Religious experience of being: existential experience of resonance and absurdity --
(i) Religious experience and the understanding of God --
2. Are religious commandments suggestions? --
(a) Religious experience as a motivating force for ethical conduct --
(b) Religious experience as the foundation of ethical norms --
(c) Religious experience and the crises of ethical action --
(d) Religious symbols and ethical conduct --
IV. The problem of historical relativity --
1. The nature of tradition --
2. The argument from historical influence --
3. Condisderations based on the theory of religion --
(a) Five problems in dealing with the historical Jesus --
(b) The truth of New Testament Christology --
4. Anthropological considerations.
Translation of Argumente fur einen kritischen Glauben. Published in 1979 by SCM Press, London, under title: On having a critical faith.
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