This book is animated by a shared conviction that philosophy of
religion needs to change: thirteen new essays suggest why and how.
The first part of the volume explores possible changes to the focus
of the field. The second part focuses on the standpoint from which
philosophers of religion should approach their field. In the first
part are chapters on how an emphasis on faith distorts attempts to
engage non-western religious ideas; on how philosophers from
different traditions might collaborate on common interests; on why
the common presupposition of ultimacy leads to error; on how new
religious movements feed a naturalistic philosophy of religion; on
why a focus on belief and a focus on practice are both mistaken; on
why philosophy's deep axiological concern should set much of the
field's agenda; and on how the field might contribute to religious
evolution. The second part includes a qualitative analysis of the
standpoint of fifty-one philosophers of religion, and also
addresses issues about humility needed in continental philosophy of
religion; about the implausibility of claiming that one's own
worldview is uniquely rational; about the Moorean approach to
religious epistemology; about a Spinozan middle way between
'insider' and 'outsider' perspectives; and about the unorthodox
lessons we could learn from scriptures like the book of Job if we
could get past the confessional turn in recent philosophy of
religion.The goal of the volume is to identify new paths for
philosophers of religion that are distinct from those travelled by
theologians and other scholars of religion.
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