Description
Book SynopsisSamuel Fleischacker offers a defense of 'revealed religion' - religions that regard a certain text or teaching as wholly authoritative over one's life. By reconciling it with secular cognitive and moral practices that allow people to work together regardless of religious difference, he shows how these two worldviews can be brought together.
Trade Reviewan intricate and sophisticated argument for rationally justifying one's taking a religious text as divine revelation. The argument is rich in creative thinking and in its breadth . . . an object of careful discussion serving for progress in philosophy of religion. * Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Although a background in philosophy would be helpful, interested readers will find this book fascinating and written with sufficient clarity for the non-specialist. * David Tesler, Association of Jewish Libraries Reviews *
Table of ContentsAbbreviations ; Acknowledgements ; 1. The Way of the World (I): Truth ; 2. The Way of the World (II): Ethics ; 3. Beyond the Way of the World: Worth ; 4. Divine Teaching ; 5. Divine Teaching and the Way of the World ; Epilogue ; Appendix I: Proofs of God ; Appendix II: Maimonides on the Evidence for Revelation ; Appendix III: Kant on Art and Natural Beauty
