| Reason and the Radical Crisis of Faith Contributor(s): Akhtar, Shabbir (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820404519 ISBN-13: 9780820404516 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $51.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1987 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - General - Philosophy - Religion | Philosophy |
| Dewey: 231.042 |
| LCCN: 86027563 |
| Series: American University Studies |
| Physical Information: 281 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Is belief in the Christian God intellectually defensible? Is it even morally necessary? In this book, Dr. Shabbir Akhtar, himself a Muslim, examines and rejects one fideist and two reductionist defences of the rationality of Christian conviction in modern industrial society. He identifies another defensive position - -theological revisionism- - which has recently gained popularity with secularized Christian thinkers. Rejecting this as merely a conservative version of reductionism, he emphasizes the need for reviving the tradition of natural theology and, in doing so, a religious vision of the world." |