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OverviewIn locating friendly fire in contemporary philosophy of religion, D.Z. Phillips shows that more harm can be done to religion by its philosophical defenders than by its philosophical despisers. Friendly fire is the result of an uncritical acceptance of empiricism, and Phillips argues that we need to examine critically the claims that individual consciousness is the necessary starting point from which we have to argue: for the existence of an external world and the reality of God; that God is a person without a body, a pure consciousness; and that to assent to a religious belief is essentially to assign a truth value to a proposition independent of any confessional context. When these products of friendly fire are avoided, we arrive at a new understanding of belief, trust and the soul, and refuse to say more or less than we know about the realities of human life in the service of religious apologetics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: D.Z. PhillipsPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138266575ISBN 10: 1138266574 Pages: 191 Publication Date: 31 March 2017 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews’In Religion and Friendly Fire, D.Z. Phillips returns to philosophical questions that have occupied him throughout his career. What makes this book unique and provocative is the way in which these questions are brought together under the theme of what Phillips calls 'friendly fire', which he describes as 'the possibility that harm can be done to religious beliefs by the very philosophical analyses which set out to defend them'.’ Philosophical Investigations 'In Religion and Friendly Fire, D.Z. Phillips returns to philosophical questions that have occupied him throughout his career. What makes this book unique and provocative is the way in which these questions are brought together under the theme of what Phillips calls 'friendly fire', which he describes as 'the possibility that harm can be done to religious beliefs by the very philosophical analyses which set out to defend them'.' Philosophical Investigations Author InformationD.Z. Phillips is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, University of Wales, Swansea, UK. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |