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Evolutionary Religion (Hardcover)
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J. L. Schellenberg articulates and defends a simple but
revolutionary idea: we are still at a very early stage in the
possible history of intelligent life on our planet, and should
frame our religious attitudes accordingly. Humans have begun to
adapt to a deep past--one measured in billions of years, not
thousands. But we have not really noticed how thin is the sliver of
past time in which all of our religious life is contained. And the
eons that may yet see intelligent life have hardly started to come
into focus. When these things are internalized, our whole picture
of religion may change. For then we will for the first time be in a
position to ask: Might there be a form of religion appropriate to
such an early stage of development as our own? Might such
'evolutionary religion' be rather different from the forms of
religion we see all around us today? And might it be better fitted
to meet the demands of reason?
Though most concerned simply to get a new discussion going,
Evolutionary Religion maintains that the answer is in each case
"yes." When the light of deep time has fully been switched on, a
new form of skepticism but, at the same time, new possibilities of
religious life will come into view. We will find ourselves drawn to
religious attitudes that, while not foregoing the idea of a
transcendent ultimate, manage to do without believing and without
details. As Schellenberg reveals, pursuing evolutionary religion
instead of embracing a scientific naturalism is something that can
rationally be done, even if traditional religious belief is placed
out of bounds by argument. And ironically it is science that should
help us see this. Indeed, in a new cultural dispensation
evolutionary religion may come to be a preferred option among those
most concerned for our intellectual enrichment and for our survival
into the deep future.
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