Research Catalog

Title

Transcendence : critical realism and God / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier and Douglas V. Porpora.

Author

Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Collier, Andrew, 1944-2014
• Porpora, Douglas V.

Description

x, 182 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

The three authors of this study are all critical realists by philosophical persuasion. They explore religious experience as a justifiable reason for religious belief and demonstrate that the three pillars of critical realism can be applied to religion as to any other belief or theory.

Series Statement

Critical realism--interventions

Uniform Title

Critical realism--interventions

Subject

• God > Proof, Empirical
• Critical realism
• Philosophical theology
• Kritischer Realismus
• Gott
• Godsdienstfilosofie
• Realisme (filosofie)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

What do we mean by God? / Margaret S. Archer, Andrew Collier, Douglas V. Porpora -- Realism, relativism and reason in religious belief / Andrew Collier -- Judgemental rationality and Jesus / Douglas V. Porpora -- Models of man : the admission of transcendence / Margaret S. Archer -- The masters of suspicion and secularisation / Andrew Collier -- Western mysticism and the limits of language / Margaret S. Archer -- A propaedeutic to a propaedeutic on inter-religious dialogue / Douglas V. Porpora -- Natural theology, revealed theology and religious experience / Andrew Collier -- On understanding religious experience : St Teresa as a challenge to social theory / Margaret S. Archer -- The human project / Douglas V. Porpora -- Emancipation, social and spiritual / Andrew Collier.

ISBN

• 0415336163
• 9780415336161
• 0415336171
• 9780415336178

LCCN

2003070230

OCLC

• ocm53953488
• 53953488
• SCSB-1356622

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library