Believing Beyond Religion: Secular Transcendence and the Primacy of Believing
Theologians have traditionally sought to correlate the transcendent and the secular. Identify three models; the Revelation, the Immanentist and the Ethical. All three I judge to be lacking in some important aspects: the Revelation and Immanentist models because they presuppose a metaphysical transce...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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[2012]
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Implicit religion
Ano: 2012, Volume: 15, Número: 1, Páginas: 81-95 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Secularity
B BELIEF & doubt B Revelation B Transcendence B Religião B Transcendence (Philosophy) B Theologians B existential conviction B faith knowledge B primacy of believing |
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| Resumo: | Theologians have traditionally sought to correlate the transcendent and the secular. Identify three models; the Revelation, the Immanentist and the Ethical. All three I judge to be lacking in some important aspects: the Revelation and Immanentist models because they presuppose a metaphysical transcendence without justification; the Ethical because its exponents either do not explain the significance ofhuman valuing, or because they seek to move back to a more traditional metaphysical concept. The secular transcendence which I am arguing for allows a primacy to believing in the creation of meaning. Such meaning cannot be derived directly from a random and contingent world. We create meaning on the basis of our own self-awareness, the cultural contexts in which we are nurtured, and the natural world. We create an existential reality which we inhabit "as if" it were real, believing it to be so. Such a believing, while wholly secular, recognizes religion as an important tool in the creation of meaning, provided that its epistemological limitations are acknowledged. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1697 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Implicit religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/imre.v15i1.81 |