The pure theory of religion /
""What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?" This book develops a "pure theory" of religion comparable to the pure theory of mathematics. It does so by focusing on...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | ""What if academic theology were to move beyond the methods of the natural and historical sciences and beyond the question of what does or does not exist?" This book develops a "pure theory" of religion comparable to the pure theory of mathematics. It does so by focusing on the miracle of Christ's Resurrection from the dead on the Third Day; either outright and explicitly, or implicitly, in reflections and thought experiments made with historical thinkers, like Saint Augustine of Hippo and Ludwig Wittgenstein, for whom this miracle was central and true. Miles Hollingworth first sketched out the possibility of such a pure theory of religion in a special lecture delivered to the European Academy on Religion & Society, in Lund, Sweden. That was some years ago, and the lecture was controversial. This book presents that pure theory of religion in full, as well as the full text of the original lecture for the first time in print"-- Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (unpaged) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197563786 0197563783 9780197563793 0197563791 9780197563779 0197563775 0197563767 9780197563762 |