Research Catalog

Title

Embracing epistemic humility : confronting triumphalism in three Abrahamic religions / Donald Marvin Borchert.

Author

Borchert, Donald M., 1934-

Publication

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2013]

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Details

Description

xxiii, 211 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Triumphalists see their world view as the ultimate repository of spiritual truth: all other world views are inferior and their adherents need to be converted forcefully, or silenced, or destroyed to prevent their cancerous views from metastasizing. Triumphalism has infected too many of the adherents in the Abrahamic religious traditions, and must be neutralized by the growth of epistemic humility using a tactic like the five step strategy suggested in this book.

Subject

• Abrahamic religions
• Humility > Religious aspects
• Religious tolerance
• Religious discrimination
• Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
• Skepticism
• God > Proof
• Religious discrimination
• Religious tolerance
• Interreligiöser Dialog
• Demut
• Religiöse Toleranz

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-198) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Will to meaning, narrative construction, and world views -- Narrative construction and leaps of faith -- Epistemology touchstone of humility -- Coherence touchstone of humility -- Pragmatic touchstone of humility.

ISBN

• 9780739180839 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739180835 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739180846 (electronic) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• ^^2013010025
• 40022472075

OCLC

• 828884608
• SCSB-12463835

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library