The Will to Imagine completes J. L. Schellenberg's trilogy in
the philosophy of religion, following his acclaimed Prolegomena to
a Philosophy of Religion and The Wisdom to Doubt. This book marks a
striking reversal in our understanding of the possibility of
religious faith. Where other works treat religious skepticism as a
dead end, The Will to Imagine argues that skepticism is the only
point from which a proper beginning in religious inquiry and in
religion itself can be made.
For Schellenberg, our immaturity as a species not only makes
justified religious belief impossible but also provides the
appropriate context for a type of faith response grounded in
imagination rather than belief, directed not to theism but to
ultimism, the heart of religion. This new and nonbelieving form of
faith, he demonstrates, is quite capable of nourishing an authentic
religious life while allowing for inquiry into ways of refining the
generic idea that shapes its commitments. A singular feature of
Schellenberg's book is his claim, developed in detail, that
unsuccessful believers' arguments can successfully be recast as
arguments for imaginative faith.
Out of the rational failure of traditional forms of religious
belief, The Will to Imagine fashions an unconventional form of
religion better fitted, Schellenberg argues, to the human species
as it exists today and as we may hope it will evolve."
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