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The Wisdom of Religious Commitment (Paperback)
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The Wisdom of Religious Commitment (Paperback)
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By exploring a practical, rather than propositional, understanding
of religious belief, this book provides a new construct through
which to view philosophy of religion. Terrence W. Tilley shifts the
focus of debate from the justification of rational belief to the
exercise of wisdom in making or maintaining a commitment to
religious practices. It is through practices, Tilley concludes,
that religious belief is formed. After analyzing the strengths and
limitations of the modern approaches, Tilley applies the concept of
wisdom to the process of making a religious commitment. Wisdom, as
explored by Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and John Henry Newman,
may be thought of as the bridge between intellectual and moral
virtues. Roughly, it can be described as the ability to put
intellect into action in a context. Because wisdom is a virtue
requiring concrete display, the book discusses the wisdom of
commitment to specific religious practices of a range of
traditions. These examples demonstrate the issues and complexities
involved in the wisdom of making a religious commitment. This
important challenge to contemporary philosophy of religion will be
of special interest to students and teachers of theology and
philosophy of religion.
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